Naslov
‘From an Impure Source, All Is Impure’: The Rise and Fall of Andrija Štampar’s Public Health Eugenics in Yugoslavia

Autori
Kuhar, Martin

Izvornik
Social history of medicine (0951-631X) 30 (2017), 1; 92-113

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Andrija Štampar ; eugenics ; Yugoslavia ; World Health Organization ; public health

Sažetak
Andrija Štampar (1888–1958) was one of the leading public health activists in the first half of the twentieth century. In the countries of former Yugoslavia he is remembered as the pivotal public health figure, a man who led the project of building 250 health institutions during his tenure in the Ministry of Public Health (1919–1931). Internationally, historians acknowledge his role as the president of the Interim Commission (1946–1948) in the development of the World Health Organization. This paper will explore a lesser-known side of Štampar, reinterpreting him as a eugenicist concerned with the biological quality of the Yugoslav population in the aftermath of the First World War. I will present his development as a eugenicist through three phases, and provide socioeconomic, scientific and personal contexts that shaped his evolving relationship with eugenics.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Povijest

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