Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the en
This book provides a historical narrative about Romania's modernization. It focuses on one group of the country's elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a mo
Part of a series that showcases work on controversial science in the history of European medicine, this volume on blood science in Nazi Germany examines the nexus of politics and research in the searc
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals, which fueled debate in various
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals in variou
Rather than a homogenous, right-wing, Anglo-Saxon ideology, the eugenics movement has been studied in recent years in a broader way--as multifaceted, variable, and international; it differed from coun