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

Yucel Yanikdag is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Born in Istanbul, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

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

Review

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. S

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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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Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire What did Ottoman prisoners of war imprisoned in Russia and Egypt during the Great War understand of nation, culture and Islam? And what role did science play in the imagined future of the nation for the Ottoman-Turkish psychiatrists who diagnosed prisoners following post-war repatriation? Doctors' interpretation of prisoners' health issues led to far-reaching questions about the relationship between the prisoners' physical bodies and mental states on the one hand, and the body politic and collective mentality of the Turkish Republic during the interwar period, on the other. During the interwar years, when the military's vigour was still taken to be a reflection of the nation's health, doctors projected the worrisome picture of the shattered nerves of both prisoner and non-prisoner alike onto the nation at large. The Great War revealed the poor health of the nation and gave medical men the chance to regenerate it through eugenics. Just as officer prisoners in the camps excluded ignorant peasants from their discursive construction of the nation, the psychiatrists disqualified those seen to threaten the nation's body. Key Features Uses previously untapped sources to reveal a new story of prisoners, medicine and nationalism Broadens the discussion of nationalism to include both ideological and biological factors Explores the social, demographic, psychological and medical impact of the Great War on the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

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Uses previously untapped sources to reveal a new story of prisoners, medicine and nationalism Broadens the discussion of nationalism to include both ideological and biological factors Explores the social, demographic, psychological and medical impact of the Great War on the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

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

Details ISBN0748695893 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 0748695893 ISBN-13 9780748695898 Format Paperback Publication Date 2014-08-31 Media Book Author Yucel Yanikdag Pages 320 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 Short Title HEALING THE NATION Language English UK Release Date 2014-08-31 NZ Release Date 2014-08-31 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2014-11-26 Alternative 9780748665785 Illustrations 13 black and white illustrations We've got this

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