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dc.contributor.authorKoschek, Marcel
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-25T15:30:05Z
dc.date.available2021-11-25T15:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-01
dc.identifier276252726
dc.identifiereb038ddd-c667-44fe-9708-88ccdbbe3d43
dc.identifier.citationKoschek , M 2021 , ' TEKA : a transnational network of Esperanto-speaking physicians ' , The Hungarian Historical Review , vol. 10 , no. 2 , pp. 243-266 . https://doi.org/10.38145/2021.2.243en
dc.identifier.issn2063-8647
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24400
dc.description.abstractThe Tutmonda Esperanta Kuracista Asocio (Worldwide Esperanto Medical Association, TEKA) was founded in 1908 at the Fourth International Esperanto Congress in Dresden and was the international medical association of the Esperanto movement. The aim was to “facilitate practical relations between Esperanto-speaking doctors of all countries.” The interest within the Esperanto movement was immense: after one year, TEKA had more than 400 members all over the world with a focus on Europe; one year later, there were more than 600 members with official representatives in about 100 cities. In Europe, a medical press in Esperanto had already been established. The approach of these journals was both simple and brilliant: the doctors presented the latest medical findings from their home countries in a peer review system and critically examined the articles in their vernacular. This made each issue a compendium of the most important and pioneering findings of national research. The numerous experts also had many other connections with, for example, the Red Cross and similar organizations. Thus, after a short period of time, TEKA brought together the expertise of countless physicians. This paper examines TEKA as a transnational network of experts before World War I. The history of the association and the role of Medicine within the Esperanto movement are briefly discussed. The focus is then on the various association journals and the circulation of knowledge. Finally, the essay offers a look at TEKA’s cooperative endeavors with the Red Cross. It works from a transnational perspective and takes a close view of the actors and their personal backgrounds at appropriate points. Furthermore, lists of members and journal subscribers are provided in map form to make the global spread of the movement within medicine visible.
dc.format.extent539433
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThe Hungarian Historical Reviewen
dc.subjectInternationalismen
dc.subjectNetwork of physiciansen
dc.subjectEsperantoen
dc.subjectTransnationalismen
dc.subjectPM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languagesen
dc.subjectR Medicineen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subject.lccPMen
dc.subject.lccRen
dc.titleTEKA : a transnational network of Esperanto-speaking physiciansen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doi10.38145/2021.2.243
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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