II. Creating the “Railway Population”: Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe 1
6. I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building
7. I. Moving Backward Toward Modernity: The Role of the Medical Council in the Organization of Public Health in Greece, 1834–1924 25
8. II. Creating the “Railway Population”: Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia 51
9. III. Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen 73
10. IV. The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife’s Bag in Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century 97
11. II. Public Health After Europe’s World Wars
12. V. Who Belongs to the Healthy Body of the Nation? Health and National Integration in Poland and the Polish Army after the First World War 117
13. VI. Transatlantic Humanitarianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War 145
14. VII. The Bodily Disabled as a Poster Boy-Veteran: War Invalids in the Soviet Union after the Second World War 173
15. VIII. Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War 195
16. III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies
17. IX. Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin’s Charité in the early GDR 217
18. X. Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia 243
19. XI. “The Gypsy Population Is Constantly Growing”: Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary 263
20. XII. Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia 293
21. Collective Bibliography 315
22. List of Contributors 335
23. Index 339