Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945

Acknowledgements

vii Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe The idea for this volume originated with the conference on “Hygiene— Health Politics—Eugenics: Engineering Society in Twentieth Century Southeastern Europe,” held between 31 May and 2 June 2007 at the Institute of East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Participants were historians and historians of medicine, social anthropologists and sociologists , all with a research interest in social history generally and the social history of medicine in particular. Their different approaches point towards the interdisciplinary scholarship attempted in this volume. This volume’s publication is possible due to the support of several colleagues and institutions to which we are much obliged. First, we would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for facilitating the organization of the conference. A grant from the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University enabled Matt Feldman and Paula Bowles to provide the first rounds of copy-editing. We would like to thank Elisabeth Jay for her support. Another grant from the University of Graz helped to bring the manuscript to its final form due to Andreas Hemming’s meticulous final editing. We would also like to thank Tanja Petrović, Gisela Bock and Roger Griffin for many helpful conversations during the preparation of this volume as well as the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on an early version of the manuscript. Last but not least, we would like to express our gratitude to Central European University Press and especially to Linda Kunos, István Bart and Péter Inkei for welcoming and supporting the publication of this volume. A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S viii INTRODUCTION ...