Contribution to Book
Health as Wealth: Commodification of Doctor – Patient Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans
Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans: A Socio-Economic History
(2016)
Abstract
Chapter 6.
About the book: Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by wars, state centralization, European expansion and the gradual Ottoman withdrawal from the Balkans. As a new middle class emerged, and the power of religion faded, Ottoman and post-Ottoman social, economic and cultural norms changed rapidly across the region. This book illustrates not only how markers of wealth accumulation and poverty were socially defined across the region, but also the ways inequality was experienced, revealing the relationships between the state, economy, society, modernity in the context of Balkan, Ottoman and European development. Evguenia Davidova marshals a compendium of thirteen contributions wherein new archival data and various case studies frame a comparative social portrayal of the modern Balkans, offering new truths to the major discourses about nationalism, modernity, and the Ottoman legacy in the respective Balkan national historiographies.
Keywords
- Balkan Peninsula -- History,
- Balkan Peninsula -- Social conditions,
- Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions,
- Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations--History
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Editor
Evguenia Davidova
Publisher
Tauris
Citation Information
Evguenia Davidova, “Health as Wealth,” in Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans:
A Socio-Economic History, ed. Evguenia Davidova (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016), 102-116.