Healing the nation : prisoners of war, medicine and nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939 /
Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the Great War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude ce...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2013]
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| Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=955649 |
| Sammanfattning: | Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the Great War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude certain groups from that nation. Those excluded were not always the ethnic or religious Other as might be expected. They frequently included the internal Other in different guises. While the educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasant from their concept of the nation, doctors used international socio-medicine as the basis for excluding all those - officers, enlisted men, civilians - they deemed to be hereditarily weak. Through the course of this study, Yanikdag looks at broader questions of nationhood. When are nations constructed? Is it when groups of people begin to think of themselves as a nation? What roles do science and medicine, as 'rational' fields of inquiry, play in shaping national and cultural identities? What role does Otherness play in the construction of national community? |
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| Fysisk beskrivning: | 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748665792 074866579X 9781299584822 1299584829 9780748665808 0748665803 9780748665815 0748665811 9780748665785 0748665781 9780748695898 0748695893 9780748689262 0748689265 |