Nursing in the Nation State: the Interwar Balkans

Intertwining gender and class, Evguenia Davidova's research suggests that the emergence of the visiting or public nurse in interwar Bulgaria and Yugoslavia becane a crucial healthcare protagonist, linking the clinic and home in fighting social diseases and in reducing child mortality. Often mediated by international organizations, the visiting nurses represent another link between national and international public health policies. Davidova is an award-winning History Professor at PSU, publishing in many journals and author of Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s), and editor of Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans. (Not recorded)