War Hecatomb

International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century

Paulo de Teodoro Matos, Helena Da Silva, José Miguel Sardica, Paulo de Teodoro Matos, Helena Da Silva, José Miguel Sardica

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9783034337366
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783034337373
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

War Hecatomb. International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century, offers new insights on the impact of wars (namely, but not exclusively, World War I), by underlining its social and psychological consequences, particularly in public health, demography, and mentalities in different countries. Therefore, it is not just another book on World Wars, since it does not focus primarily on political, diplomatic, military or economic aspects. Instead, the work offers a brand new approach on these wars' consequences, and especially on the civilizational significance of the Great War of 1914-1918. This original view over societies coping with the aftermath of the two world wars reveals how states and different agents were compelled to act and to face the new post-war reality, bringing to light an innovative social agenda while simultaneously trying to cope with the overwhelming phenomenon of physically and mentally scarred multitudes of veterans and their families. The book focuses on the consequences of conflicts in different perspectives and geographic locations. In twelve chapters, several aspects and effects of wars are analysed through different lens.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Editors’ Preface
• Chapter 1 – From innocence to harshness: the civilizational significance of World War I (José Miguel Sardica)
• Chapter 2 – ‘Silent Deaths’: British Soldier Suicides in the First World War (Simon Walker )
• Chapter 3 – A Eugenic Legislation: Health before, during and after the Great War in Italy (Emilia Musumeci)
• Chapter 4 – “Our Sacrifice for the Country!” War and Gender Identity in Transylvania (Georgeta Fodor, Maria Tătar-Dan)
• Chapter 5 – Public silence: the memory of the influenza epidemic of 1918–19 in Portugal (José Manuel Sobral, Maria Luísa Lima)
• Chapter 6 – The social reception of a novel legal framework for WW1 war orphans: the pupille de la Nation status (Nicolas Todd)
• Chapter 7 – War Trauma, mental health and social consequences of World War I in Romanian Psychology and Psychiatry (1919–1939) (Oana Habor)
• Chapter 8 – (In)complete Citizens: First World War Portuguese Disabled Soldiers and the Reconstruction of Group Identity (Sílvia Correia)
• Chapter 9 – War, Peace and times of transition: Civil demographic losses in Austria during WW I and “recovery” until 1938. An international and intraregional comparison (Peter Teibenbacher)
• Chapter 10 – For the protection of public health: Prisoners of War and Refugees in Quarantine on Saint-George Island, 1922–1925 (Anastasios Zografos)
• Chapter 11 – The impact of the Second World War on the young Polish population (Grażyna Liczbińska, Zbigniew Czapla, Janusz Piontek, Robert M. Malina)
• Chapter 12 – Warfare in the 19th-20th Centuries and Its Effects: A Necessary Evil? (Case Study: World War I) (Ioan Bolovan / Sorina Paula Bolovan)
• Biographical Notes