Roy Porter Student Prize Essay For the People's Health: Ideology, Medical Authority and Hygienic Science in Communist Czechoslovakia (2014)
Moore, Bradley Matthys (Author)
Social History of Medicine
Volume: 27, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 122-143
The communist political milieu offered distinct professional, scientific and socio-political advantages to agents of public health and hygiene in post-war Czechoslovakia. Hygienists employed the imperatives of Marxist-Leninism and Sovietisation to call for a fundamental reformulation of state and professional perspectives on population health, and further, to seek sweeping prerogatives over all the conditions of work and life in Czechoslovak society. Such an active and interventionist approach to preventive medicine, these hygienists asserted, was the primary route to the eradication of disease, the broad improvement of public health and the continued development of communism itself. The political and ideological demands of the regime largely aligned with existing environmentalist traditions in public health, and the leadership of Czechoslovakia's nascent state hygiene services therefore coordinated their research aims, professional programme and practical efforts with the philosophical and institutional imperatives of Soviet-style communism in their own disciplinary interests.
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