Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1

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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.

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Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the First World 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 from different ethnic or religious groups as you might expect. The educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasants from their concept of the nation, while doctors used international socio-medicine to exclude all those – officers, enlisted men, civilians – they deemed to be hereditarily weak.

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'This highly original and impeccably researched study helps us understand not only the workings of the Ottoman military establishment but also the state formation in the late Ottoman Empire and the influence of German theories of medicine, psychiatry and eugenics in this complex process.'M. ?

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'This highly original and impeccably researched study helps us understand not only the workings of the Ottoman military establishment but also the state formation in the late Ottoman Empire and the influence of German theories of medicine, psychiatry and eugenics in this complex process.'M. s

Author Biography

Rucel Yan[UNK]kdag is Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History, University of Richmond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Author's note on usage; List of maps and figures; List of tables INTRODUCTION; 1. THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND CAPTIVITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT; 2. IMAGINING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT: A COMPARISON; 3. SAVIOUR SONS OF THE NATION: INSIDE THE PRISONERS' MINDS; 4. PRISONERS AS DISEASE CARRIERS: CASES OF PELLAGRA AND TRACHOMA; 5. WAR NEUROSIS AND PRISONERS OF WAR: WARTIME NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL INTERPRETATION; 6. DEGENERATIONIST PATHWAY TO EUGENICS: NEURO-PSYCHIATRY, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND ANXITIES OVER NATIONAL HEALTH; EPILOGUE: THE SEARCH FOR A USEABLE PAST: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND TURKISH NATIONALISM; Bibliography; Index

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The original sources and new insights offered by Healing the Nation gives scholars of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the modern Middle East much to consider. Few, if any, works preceding this study have considered the history and legacy of wartime internment, thus adding considerably to the breadth of our understanding of World War I.'--Ryan Gingeras "The American Historical Review"This is a fascinating study, readable, always interesting, well written and set out and based on extensive primary research in the Ottoman archives, in the Public Record Office, in the US national archives, in the camp newspapers and drawing on a host of other material. As a study of the health consequences of war, Healing the Nation should appeal to doctors and psychiatrists as well as students of late Ottoman and early republican Turkish history.'--Jeremy Salt, Bilkent University "Social History of Medicine, vol 27, no 3"Weaved together in a comprehensive work with inquisitive reasoning and clever writing style, [Healing the Nation] deserves a warm welcome to historiography.'--Sanem Güvenç Salgrl "Insight Turkey"'Healing the Nation is a very important, well-researched, and original contribution to the literature and should inspire new studies on the topic.'--M. Alper Yalcinkaya "The Historian"

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Unique sources reveal how the Great War and its psychological fallout influenced the construction of Turkish identity and nationalism

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Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the First World 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 from different ethnic or religious groups as you might expect. The educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasants from their concept of the nation, while doctors used international socio-medicine to exclude all those - officers, enlisted men, civilians - they deemed to be hereditarily weak.

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'Yankda's skill and craft as a social historian shines brightly in this account of Ottoman soldiers who were not heroes, as he tells us two stories at once: the tale of those who were silenced and that of those who did the silencing...His work is a must read for any scholar or interested observer who would like to go deeper into the ethics of military heroism as it has been embraced by Turkish national official and mundane, at the expense of untold stories of what war really does to us all.'

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"This highly original and impeccably researched study helps us understand not only the workings of the Ottoman military establishment but also the state formation in the late Ottoman Empire and the influence of German theories of medicine, psychiatry and eugenics in this complex process." - M. SkrHanioglu, Princeton University "His skill and craft as a social historian shines brightly in this account of Ottoman soldiers who were not heroes, as he tells us two stories at once: the tale of those who were silenced and that of those who did the silencing." - Turkish Review, Nergis Canefe (York University, Toronto) "This is a fascinating study, readable, always interesting, well written and set out and based on extensive primary research in the Ottoman archives, in the Public Record Office, in the US national archives, in the camp newspapers and drawing on a host of other material. As a study of the health consequences of war, Healing the Nation should appeal to doctors and psychiatrists as well as students of late Ottoman and early republican Turkish history." - Jeremy Salt, Social History of Medicine "The original sources and new insights offered by Healing the Nation gives scholars of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the modern Middle East much to consider. Few, if any, works preceding this study have considered the history and legacy of wartime internment, thus adding considerably to the breadth of our understanding of World War I." - Ryan Gingeras, The American Historical Review "Weaved together in a comprehensive work with inquisitive reasoning and clever writing style, [Healing the Nation] deserves a warm welcome to historiography." - Sanem GvenSalgirli, Insight Turkey "beginning with tracing Turkish nationalism among POWs and following with the analysis of the reports of medical doctors, Yanikdag creates a unique and untraditional approach to point out the trajectory of the emergence of Turkish nationalism among POWs... the author's approach is a methodologically creative way to discuss the Ottomans' role in the Great War. Consequently, the medical publications, the bibliography, and above all the prisoners' literature, including prison-camp newspapers, poems, folk songs, and cartoons that the author unearthed, make the book a real gem for scholars." -- Haldun Yalinkaya, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, ar in History

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Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire

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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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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? Y

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The Ottoman Empire, Turkish History, the Great War/ First World War, History of Science/ Medicine; Nationalism; Subaltern Studies.

Details ISBN0748665781 Author Yucel Yanikdag Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0748665781 ISBN-13 9780748665785 Format Hardcover Short Title HEALING THE NATION Media Book Imprint Edinburgh University Press Subtitle Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939 Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 956.102 Illustrations 13 b&w illustrations UK Release Date 2013-04-24 AU Release Date 2013-04-24 NZ Release Date 2013-04-24 Pages 320 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Publication Date 2013-04-24 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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