Dorastanie w okowach higieny i eugeniki w świetle piśmiennictwa Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Higienicznego na początku XX wieku
Growing up in the Bonds of Hygiene and Eugenics in the Light of the Writings of the Warsaw Hygiene Society (Warszawskie Towarzystwo Higieniczne) at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the hygienization and medicalization of attitudes towards young people in the Kingdom of Poland at the beginning of the 20th century in the abundant literature (both scholarly and popularizing) of the Warsaw Hygiene Society. The socially active doctors and hygienists wrote about the health, hygiene and education of young people, employing eugenic criteria. The medicalized attitude towards young people was a manifestation of attempts to control and discipline them.

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