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Author Barbulescu, Constantin

Title Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine : Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910
Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Series CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine Ser
CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine Ser
Contents Cover; series title page; title page; copyright page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: Romania Through the Eyes of Doctors; 1. "Minister, I submit this report ... "; The Earliest Public Health Reports; The Reports of District Health Practitioners; The Reports of County Medical Officers; The Reports of the Higher Medical Council; The Reports of Public Health Inspectors; The Reports of the Metropolitan Health and Sanitary Services; The Reports of Doctors from Rural Hospitals; The Reports of Regimental Medical Personnel; 2. Doctors Remember
"Having reached the twilight of life, I am haunted by memories""Doctor, scratch me"; 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; The Peasant, A Being Wretched in His Body ... ; ... And Wretched in His Clothes; 2. "The majority live in worse conditions than the Zulus": Domestic Space and Health; The Underground Hovel: The Scourge of the Rural Habitat; Overground Homes: Clay, Dung, and Straw; The "Hygienic Ills" of Rural Dwellings; 3. "The peasant's only food is mămăliga": Food and Health
The Peasant at the TableMămăligă ... and Again Mămăligă; The Peasant: A Reluctant Vegetarian; Mămăliga, Sloth, Illness and Death; The Good Times of Yesteryear; Our Daily Water; 4. "Is the Romanian an alcoholic?": Alcohol and Health; The Peasant and His Bottle; "Alcoholism: From Birth till Death"; The "Hazards of Alcoholism"; Against Drunkenness; 5. "Pellagra, the tragedy of our peasant": An Illness is Born; The Illness and Its Representations; An Illness of the Poor; A Sarabande of Statistics; "Pellagra: An Illness caused by Rotten Corn"; Against Pellagra
6 The "degeneration of the race and the decline of the nation": Demography and Its AnxietiesThe Beginning of the End; Degeneration, Depopulation, Antisemitism; Racial Degeneration and the Statistics of Conscription; Infant Mortality at the End of the Century; PART THREE: Medical Culture vs. Peasant Culture; 1. The Power of Medical Culture: New Laws for People Locked in the Past; For the Sake of the People's Health: Laws, Regulations, Norms ... ; ... And the Impossibility of Enforcing Them; 2. Two Mid-Nineteenth-Century Case Studies: Marin Vărzaru and Stoian Buruiană
Empirics, Charlatans, and IgnoranceThe New Order of Carol Davila; The Empirics and Their Remedies; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Names; back cover
Summary 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 world. Doctors ventured out of cities and became a familiar sight on dusty country roads in of Moldavia and Wallachia. Beyond a charitable impulse they did so thru patriotism as the rural world became ever more prominent within the national ideology. Furthermore, new health legislation required the district gener
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Subject Rural health -- Romania -- History -- 19th century
Rural health -- Romania -- History -- 20th century
Medicine, Rural -- Romania -- History -- 19th century
Medicine, Rural -- Romania -- History -- 20th century
Social medicine -- Romania -- History -- 19th century
Social medicine -- Romania -- History -- 20th century
Medicine, Rural
Rural health
Social medicine
Romania
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789633862681
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