Turning points in socialist medicine: transnational influences, psychologization and class in East-Central European expertise on premature children, 1950s–1980s
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985963%3A_____%2F25%3A00636988" target="_blank" >RIV/67985963:_____/25:00636988 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/turning-points-in-socialist-medicine-transnational-influences-psychologization-and-class-in-eastcentral-european-expertise-on-premature-children-1950s1980s/168A6D479AB306CE3710B40C650E719C" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/turning-points-in-socialist-medicine-transnational-influences-psychologization-and-class-in-eastcentral-european-expertise-on-premature-children-1950s1980s/168A6D479AB306CE3710B40C650E719C</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0268416025000086" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0268416025000086</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Turning points in socialist medicine: transnational influences, psychologization and class in East-Central European expertise on premature children, 1950s–1980s
Original language description
Socialist states aspired to create modern, egalitarian societies with healthy citizens. Over the four decades of state socialism, experts debated whether premature children could achieve normal long-term mental development and full societal integration. This article analyses expertise networks to comparatively explore medical discussions regarding premature infants’ long-term development in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. We examine how medical expertise interacted with psychology and sociology, analysing the shifting impact of these disciplines across time and space and how state–expertise relationships differed among disciplines. Two significant turning points emerge. First, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, psychology’s resurgence facilitated the identification of mental delays in preterm children, sparking systematic expert interest in their development. Second, beginning in the early 1970s, experts inspired by transnational knowledge exchange emphasized socio-environmental factors’ influence. While East-Central European experts referenced their Western counterparts, they diverged in framing gender and class dynamics. Socialist experts adopted a less gendered approach to parental roles, contrasting with Western studies emphasizing maternal care and paternal occupation. Although less classist than Western perspectives, 1970s medical expertise incorporated class indicators to analyse premature children’s socio-environments, aligning with country-specific sociological approaches. These developments indicate broader societal shifts within socialist societies.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
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)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX21-28766X" target="_blank" >GX21-28766X: Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
ISSN
0268-4160
e-ISSN
1469-218X
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
16 June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
1-32
UT code for WoS article
001509327400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105009049939