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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Romania Through the Eyes of Doctors
6. 1. “Minister, I submit this report…” 11
7. 2. Doctors Remember 34
8. PART TWO Medical Discourse on the Peasant and the Village
9. 1. “Thick layers of filth cover their skin”: On the Hygiene of Bodies and Clothes 51
10. 2. “The majority live in worse conditions than the Zulus”: Domestic Space and Health 66
11. 3. “The peasant’s only food is mămăliga”: Food and Health 90
12. 4. “Is the Romanian an alcoholic?”: Alcohol and Health 123
13. 5. “Pellagra, the tragedy of our peasant”: An Illness is Born 146
14. 6. The “degeneration of the race and the decline of the nation”: Demography and Its Anxieties 173
15. PART THREE Medical Culture vs. Peasant Culture
16. 1. The Power of Medical Culture: New Laws for People Locked in the Past 227
17. 2. Two Mid-Nineteenth-Century Case Studies: Marin Vărzaru and Stoian Buruiană 244
18. Conclusions 269
19. Bibliography 277
20. Index of Names 291