Facing Illness in Troubled Times
Health in Europe in the Interwar Years, 1918-1939
©2005
Edited Collection
XIV,
426 Pages
Summary
Health was a central theme in interwar Europe. The trauma of the First World War, political turmoil and economic crisis placed special demands on public health. Governments engaged to an unprecedented degree in social policy, establishing new sanitary institutions and structures. New scientific doctrines helped spread new ideas. In the process, health gained many functions: It spurred nation-building. It served to integrate and exclude people, define borders and forge identities. Health played a crucial role in the evolving political and social order of interwar Europe. But how healthy were the people really? How did their health respond to policies, and how did policies respond to their health? In this study fourteen scholars address key aspects of the issue.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 426
- Year
- 2005
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631519486
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Europa Bevölkerung Gesundheit Geschichte 1918-1939 Parisot, Jacques Pittaluga, Gustavo Zwischenkriegszeit Mortalitätsdaten Grossbritannien
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XIV, 426 pp., num. fig., tables and graphs
