The Power of Medical Culture: New Laws for People Locked in the Pastįor the Sake of the People’s Health: Laws, Regulations, Norms … And the Impossibility of Enforcing ThemĢ. Infant Mortality at the End of the Centuryġ. Racial Degeneration and the Statistics of Conscription
The “degeneration of the race and the decline of the nation”: Demography and Its Anxieties “Pellagra: An Illness caused by Rotten Corn”Ħ. “Pellagra, the tragedy of our peasant”: An Illness is Born “Is the Romanian an alcoholic?”: Alcohol and Healthĥ. “The peasant’s only food is mămăliga”: Food and HealthĤ. The Underground Hovel: The Scourge of the Rural Habitatģ. “The majority live in worse conditions than the Zulus”: Domestic Space and Health The Peasant, A Being Wretched in His Body…Ģ. “Thick layers of filth cover their skin”: On the Hygiene of Bodies and Clothes Medical Discourse on the Peasant and the Villageġ. “Having reached the twilight of life, I am haunted by memories”
The Reports of Regimental Medical Personnel
The Reports of Doctors from Rural Hospitals The Reports of the Metropolitan Health and Sanitary Services The Reports of the Higher Medical Council The Reports of District Health Practitioners He places official measures, laws, regulations, and modern norms about public health in the context of a broader modernizing process. The author illuminates a variety of aspects of social life based on the doctors' reports on the peasant and the rural world, including general hygiene, clothing, dwellings, nutrition, drinking habits and healing. Some of them were motivated by charity, and others by patriotism, as the rural world became ever more prominent in Romania's national ideology.īased on original research, including doctors’ public health reports and memoirs, the book describes the rural conditions in Romania between 18 and the doctors' efforts to improve the peasants’ way of life. Doctors ventured out from the cities and became a familiar sight on the dusty country roads of Moldavia and Wallachia, for new health legislation required general practitioners (medici de plasă) to visit the villages in their districts twice every month. 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. This book provides a historical narrative about Romania’s modernization.
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