Victoria Shmidt has a PhD in Social Work (2012, Masaryk University). Since 2011, she has been working on the issue of the policies concerning ethnic minorities in the Czech lands.

• Acknowledgements, List of archives and used abbreviations, List of illustrations, Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia, Part 1: Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period, 1. Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests, 2. The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation?, 3. Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism, Part 2: Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of defective Gypsies, 4. Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity, 5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist Czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science, 6. The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970s and 1980s, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index

Victoria Shmidt has a PhD in Social Work (2012, Masaryk University). Since 2011, she has been working on the issue of the policies concerning ethnic minorities in the Czech lands.

• Acknowledgements, List of archives and used abbreviations, List of illustrations, Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia, Part 1: Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period, 1. Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests, 2. The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation?, 3. Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism, Part 2: Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of defective Gypsies, 4. Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity, 5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist Czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science, 6. The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970s and 1980s, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index

Victoria Shmidt has a PhD in Social Work (2012, Masaryk University). Since 2011, she has been working on the issue of the policies concerning ethnic minorities in the Czech lands.

• Acknowledgements, List of archives and used abbreviations, List of illustrations, Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia, Part 1: Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period, 1. Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests, 2. The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation?, 3. Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism, Part 2: Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of defective Gypsies, 4. Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity, 5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist Czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science, 6. The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970s and 1980s, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index