Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation

Vassiliki Theodorou is Assistant Professor at the University of Democritus-Thrace, Komotini, Greece Despina Karakatsani is Professor at the University of the Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece

INTRODUCTION
PART 1: HEALTH AND CHILD WELFARE IN GREECE (1890-1920)
CHAPTER I: THE EMERGENCE OF INTEREST IN CHILD HEALTH39
CHAPTER II: CONCERNS ABOUT STUDENT HEALTH AND THE FIRST STEPS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
1.Public Health and Student Morbidity
2.The Health of Schoolchildren; a Matter of `National Efficiency’
3. The First Attempts to Improve Child Health
CHAPTER III: THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE AND THE SPREAD OF HYGIENE
1.The Establishment of the School Medical Service
2.Emmanuel Lambadarios: a Pioneer in School Hygiene
3.School medical inspection until 1920
4. The Work of the School Medical Service until 1920
5. Growth Indices
CHAPTER IV: MODERNITY AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS FOR CHILD HEALTH
1.Voluntary associations and social hygiene for students
2.Novelties and institutions for children
3.Accomplishments and prospects in public health circa 1920
4.The Greek Paedology Society and the journal Παιδολογία (Paedology)
PART II: FROM MORALIZATION TO THE SOCIAL TURN OF MEDICAL CONCERN (1922-1935)
CHAPTER I: HEALTH AS PUBLIC GOOD DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD
CHAPTER II: THE ARRIVAL OF REFUGEES; NEW PRIORITIES AND READJUSTMENT OF TARGETS
1. The Condition of Public Health and the First Measures
2.The Action of the Patriotic Welfare Foundation in the 1920s: Urgent Needs and New Directions
3.Health Care Measures for Students (1922-1928): Financial Limitations and Containment of the Attempts
CHAPTER III: THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PROTECTION OF CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD: LANDMARKS AND CONTINUITIES (1928-1932)
1.The Plan for the Reorganization of Public Health: Expectations and Frustration
2.Hygienic and Social Policy on Infants
3.School Hygiene and Hygienic Propositions
4.Teaching Hygiene at School
5.Papandreou’s Programme on School Buildings
6.Open-air teaching, children’s summer camps and semi-open-air solutions
7.Nutrition and the Organization of Soup Kitchens during the Interwar
8.Eugenic Propositions and Puericulture Concerns in Interwar Greece
9.Mental Health and Hygiene during the Interwar
PART III: CHILD AND MATERNAL WELFARE DURING THE METAXAS’S REGIME (1936-1940)
CHAPTER I: SOCIAL POLICY AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE REGIME
1.The New State: moral reform and cultural mission
2.The National Youth Organisation (EON): the cult of the leader
3.Authoritatian and modernizing trends in health and social welfare
4.Social policy on health: priorities and limitations
CHAPTER II: THE POLITICAL USE OF MOTHERHOOD AND CHILDHOOD WELFARE
1.“Childhood is the foundation of the nation’s future”: welfare for students
2. Care for sickly children
3.The policy on motherhood and infancy
4.The medicalization of birth
5. Demographical trends and priorities: the Greek paradigm
6.The Balkan congresses: findings and prospects
CONCLUSION
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