Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine : : Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910 / / Constantin Barbulescu.
This monograph, a coherent and consistent historical narrative about Romania's modernization, focuses on one section of the country's elites of the late nineteenth century, namely the health professionals, and on the imagery they constructed as they interacted with the peasant and his worl...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Năm xuất bản: | 2019 |
Ngôn ngữ: | English |
Loạt: | CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE Romania Through the Eyes of Doctors
- 1. “Minister, I submit this report…”
- 2. Doctors Remember
- PART TWO Medical Discourse on the Peasant and the Village
- 1. “Thick layers of filth cover their skin”: On the Hygiene of Bodies and Clothes
- 2. “The majority live in worse conditions than the Zulus”: Domestic Space and Health
- 3. “The peasant’s only food is mămăliga”: Food and Health
- 4. “Is the Romanian an alcoholic?”: Alcohol and Health
- 5. “Pellagra, the tragedy of our peasant”: An Illness is Born
- 6. The “degeneration of the race and the decline of the nation”: Demography and Its Anxieties
- PART THREE Medical Culture vs. Peasant Culture
- 1. The Power of Medical Culture: New Laws for People Locked in the Past
- 2. Two Mid-Nineteenth-Century Case Studies: Marin Vărzaru and Stoian Buruiană
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Names