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Books in the CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine series

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  • - Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria
    by Svetla (Centre for Advanced Study Sofia) Baloutzova
    £55.99

    A monograph that investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family in Bulgaria between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations.

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    £77.99

    This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. It examines the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and international agencies.

  • - Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
    by Francesco (University of Genoa) Cassata
    £77.99

    Analyzes the Italian case study with the intention of discussing several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics.

  • - Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s)
    by Maria Zarimis
    £23.99 - 63.49

    The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals, which fueled debate in various areas such as 'man's place in nature', eugenics, the nature-nurture controversy, religion, as well as class, race and gender.

  • - The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
    by Tudor (Associate Lecturer Georgescu
    £55.99

    The Eugenic Fortress examines the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during this turbulent period.

  • - Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910
    by Constantin Barbulescu
    £63.49

    This book provides a historical narrative about Romania's modernization. It focuses on one group of the country's elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a modern Romania that they constructed as they interacted with peasants and rural life.

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