Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945

Contents

v Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe C O N T E N T S Acknowledgements vii INTRODUCTION Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe 1 Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Marius Turda PART I: GERMAN EUGENIC PAraDIGMS Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe 27 Paul Weindling PART II: HYGIENE AND HEALTH POLITICS Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of ‘Race,’ Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874–1914 57 Brigitte Fuchs Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912–1944 87 Christian Promitzer Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece 127 Katerina Gardikas Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900–1940 143 Kristina Popova vi Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900–1940 165 Leda Papastefanaki “Like Yeast in Fermentation”: Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia 193 Željko Dugac PART III: EUGENICS AND REPRODUCTION Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878–1940 233 Gergana Mircheva Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece 271 Sevasti Trubeta Eugenics and Puericulture: Medical Attempts to Improve the Biological Capital in Interwar Greece 299 Vassiliki Theodorou and Despina Karakatsani Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Romania, 1918–1944 325 Marius Turda The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania 351 Tudor Georgescu Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia 385 Rory Yeomans PART IV: NEW RESEARCH AGENDAS Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Health, Hygiene and Eugenics 427 Maria Bucur Contributors 447 Index 451 CONTENTS ...