ESSHC Conference

Kateřina Lišková and Natalia Jarska presented in a panel "Mothers at Risk in Socialist East-Central Europe. Medical and Psychological Expertise on Healthy Motherhood in a Comparative Perspective, the 1950s-1980s." They focused on the medical understanding of social causes of premature birth and how it changed over the four decades of state socialism and on the ways in which experts saw women without (enough) children.

Annina Gagyiova and José L.A. López Barajas presented in a panel "Adapting Children to Socialist Societies: Experts at the Crossroad of State Ambition and Parental Care." They focused on how experts in East Central Europe perceived the chances of premature children to develop normally as they grow up and on late-socialist expert practices and discourses toward school maturity in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.