A01=Yucel Yanikdag
Author_Yucel Yanikdag
Category=NHG
degeneration
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eugenics
nationalism
Ottoman Empire
prisoners of war
shell shock
Turkey
World War I
Product details
- ISBN 9780748665785
- Weight: 626g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Yücel Yanıkdağ is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Born in Istanbul, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. A Fulbright-Hays scholar, his research interests include: social and cultural history of the Great War, social history of medicine, and Turkish nationalism. His articles have appeared in Journal of Contemporary History, Middle Eastern Studies, and The First World War as Remembered in the Countries of the Mediterranean.
