Prevenind și tratând. Aspecte ale evoluției sistemului sanitar în Bucovina (1775-1849)
Preventing and Treating. Aspects of the Evolution of the Health Care System in Bukovina (1775-1849)
Author(s): Harieta Mareci Sabol Subject(s): History
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: plague; disease; reform; quarantine; doctor; hospital;
Summary/Abstract: The sanitary system in Bukovina is in many respects connected to the reformatory efforts of the Josephinist period. The introduction of a new medical legislation, institutions, and sanitary rules had affected the whole society, these reforms gradually reduced the existing traditional patterns in health care, and eventually replaced them with regulated, structured measures of the medical knowledge and practice. Modeled after Central-European examples, they played a key role in the process of modernization of the “easternmost province of the Habsburg Monarchy”. This paper shows different aspects of the relationship between the medical initiatives – emanating from Vienna, and their implementation in Bukovina, in a variety of different circumstances, from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The cases of epidemics and sanitary/medical structure (such as quarantine, hospitals and their practitioners) are used to illustrate some of the main issues involved.
Journal: Astra Salvensis - revista de istorie si cultura
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 31-44
- Page Count: 14