Healing the nation, prisoners of war, medicine and nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939, Yücel Yanikdağ
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Healing the nation, prisoners of war, medicine and nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939, Yücel Yanikdağ
Language
eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Healing the nation
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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849931161
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Yücel Yanikdağ
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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prisoners of war, medicine and nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939
Summary
Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the First World War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude certain groups from that nation. Those excluded were not always from different ethnic or religious groups as you might expect. The educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasants from their concept of the nation, while doctors used international socio-medicine to exclude all those ́€“ officers, enlisted men, civilians ́€“ they deemed to be hereditarily weak.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
The Ottoman Great War and captivity in Russia and Egypt -- Imagining community and identity in Russia and Egypt: a comparison -- Saviour sons of the nation: inside the prisoners' minds -- Prisoners as disease carriers: cases of Pellagra and trachoma -- War neuroses and prisoners of war: wartime nervous breakdown and the politics of medical interpretation -- Degenerationist pathway to eugenics: neuro-psychiatry, social pathology and anxieties over national health -- Epilogue: The search for a useable past: Prisoners of war, the Ottoman Great War and Turkish nationalism
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