Reproduction between Health and Sickness: Doctors’ Attitudes to Reproductive Issues in Interwar Czechoslovakia*

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F21%3A39918377" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/21:39918377 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://hunghist.org/84-abstract/738-2021-2-najmanova" target="_blank" >https://hunghist.org/84-abstract/738-2021-2-najmanova</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.38145/2021.2.301" target="_blank" >10.38145/2021.2.301</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reproduction between Health and Sickness: Doctors’ Attitudes to Reproductive Issues in Interwar Czechoslovakia*

Original language description

The study examines how doctors in interwar Czechoslovakia intervened in reproductive issues and related areas of life in an attempt to combat the declining birthrate, a trend that was considered a threat to society. Inspired by Foucault’s concept of medicalization and biopower, through the analysis of medical literature and articles from the press in the interwar period, I will demonstrate how Czechoslovak doctors, not only but especially under the influence of eugenics, foregrounded the categories of health and sickness in order to assert definitions of “correct” forms of reproduction while attempting to stigmatize and discourage forms of reproduction that they considered detrimental to the health of society or the nation. The aim of the study is not only to expand the body of knowledge about the activities and attitudes of Czechoslovak doctors in the interwar period but also to call attention to the still current topic of the political background of reproductive policy

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hungarian Historical Review

ISSN

2063-8647

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

301-327

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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