ISSN 2084–1418
The paper edition of the Anthropology of History Yearbook is the definitive version
2012, No. 1 (2), Anthropology / history of the Contemporary World
Ewelina Szpak
The Concept of Health, Illness and Physicality in the Rural Perception of the World after 1945, or on Changes in Mentality in Polish Rural Areas
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Keywords: history, mentality, health, body, illness, countryside, 20th century
Abstract: Political, economic and cultural changes occurring in the Poland after the War War II influenced the profound social shift observed in the sphere of everyday life of different social groups.
The main aim of the text was an attempt to scratch the range of transformations occurring in the rural perception of the body, health and illness in the second half of the twentieth century.
The main research questions raised in the paper were: in what terms health and illness was defined? How these concepts translate into practice? What had been changed during the four decades of communist regime and in which sphere the changes were most evident.
What factors determined the scale and pace of this processes.
About Author:
EWELINA SZPAK - historian, doctoral student, former PhD student at the Historical Department of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.