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Pelc, Hubert

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“…In the second stage, a physician was required to perform a medical procedure, and in the third, final stage, counseling would be able to focus on education, which had to be masked in earlier stages by more immediately desirable services. 61 The activities of counseling bureaux for mothers and children addressed improving and adjusting the social, health, and living conditions of families, based on general hygiene principles, thus setting standards of health, child welfare, and family behavior. Organizing public health care that would minimize the mortality rate, together with the betterment of social conditions for families without causing a fear of social decline was seen as the best way to prevent a real population decline.…”

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Population Crisis in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Building up a Healthy Family

Jakobyová

2023

Journal of Family History

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A population problem represented by the declining birth rate came to the focus of experts’ and politicians’ attention in interwar Czechoslovakia. Significant activities concerning the decrease in quantity and alleged population quality were pursued within the broad spectrum of experts who questioned the nation's future. Drawing from the concept of biopolitics, this article demonstrates through the analysis of medical discourse how medical professionals and social workers together with counseling bureaux, foregrounded the idea of a healthy family, primarily inspired by a (pseudo)science of eugenics, in order to maintain appropriate quantitative and qualitative population development. This article aims to expand the body of knowledge on experts’ attitudes toward demographic trends in interwar Czechoslovakia and to draw attention to two types of counseling bureaux and their role in reproductive policy. While the idea of eugenic premarital bureaux was explicitly linked to the eugenic movement that aimed at discouraging the reproduction of people identified as inferior, the role of counseling bureaux for mothers and children regarding family planning and reproduction remains overshadowed by their mission of medico-social care for children.

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Section: Under the Scrutiny Of Doctor And Social Workermentioning

confidence: 99%