EAN: 9783631596531

MAKING A NEW COUNTRYSIDE GEBUNDEN

How and why did 'the rural' emerge as a medico-political problem  and how was this issue
addressed in different parts of Europe? This book investigates how rural environments became
associated with particularised concepts of sickness and health  and how such views changed over
time. Responses  in the form of successful and failed attempts to make a 'new' countryside  are
analysed at local  regional and national levels - to some extent also involving international
dimensions - covering sanitary and social campaigns  legislation and regulation  as well as the
establishment and functioning of health services. The volume demonstrates the ambiguous
position of rural society in European culture and politics. 'The rural' represented the good 
clean  and unspoilt  yet it was perceived as backwards  uncivilised  and on the margins of 'the
modern'. This volume shows how medical science and medical practitioners contributed both to
the ambiguity of 'the rural' and to the 'civilisation' of country-dwellers  and additionally
demonstrates the strong political and cultural positions held by rural populations in some of
the countries.

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