https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116494 Ina Dimitrova, PhD Associate Professor, “Paisii Hilendarski” University of Plovdiv – Bulgaria, Faculty of Philosophy and History [ina.dimitrova@uni-plovdiv.bg], ORCID: 0000-0002-5227-915X “Everything for the Benefit of Man, Everything for the Sake of Man!”[1]: Genetic Counselling in Socialist Bulgaria Abstract: This paper examines the process of introduction and popularization of genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis in…
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116482 Katarzyna Jarosz, PhD Assistant Professor, International University of Logistics and Transport, Wrocław – Poland [katarzynojarosz@gmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0001-5910-2165 Small Museums, Singular Figures – Curating Medical Breakthroughs in Public Exhibitions Abstract: This article investigates how three small, independent European medical museums use person-centred narratives to construct national and cultural understandings of medical innovation. Focusing on the…
Slava Savova, PhD Candidate Researcher, „Medical Anthropology” Unit, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [slava.savova@iefem.bas.bg], ORCID: 0009-0001-8883-3511 Re-Ottomanizing Modernity: Domesticating Balneology in Early to Mid-20th-Century Bulgaria Abstract: The decades after Bulgaria’s liberation from Ottoman rule (a continuous process beginning in 1878) were marked by the construction of a…
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116423 Inxhi Brisku, PhD Candidate Researcher, „Medical Anthropology” Unit, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [inxhi.brisku@iefem.bas.bg], ORCID: 0000-0002-9080-4808 The Dialectics of Marxism and Neo-Freudianism: Ideological Dogmatism and the Limits of Criticism in Socialist Albania Abstract: This article analyses the book Neofrojdizmi: filozofi e njeriut të tjetërsuar [Neo-Freudianism: The…
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116390 Tiago Pires, PhD Postdoctoral researcher, “Medical Anthropology” Unit Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [tiago_pires@ymail.com; tiago.pires@iefem.bas.bg], ORCID: 0000-0003-2351-5165 Anthropology and Psychoanalysis in Ernesto de Martino’s Ethnopsychiatry Abstract: This paper aims to understand how Ernesto de Martino’s work became the epistemological basis of ethnopsychiatry in Italy, especially through…
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116360 Klejd Këlliçi, PhD Associate Professor University of Tirana – Albania Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Sciences [k.kellici@gmail.com], OCRID: 0000-0001-8877-3590 Hygiene Campaigns and State Penetration in the Sixties in Socialist Albania Abstract: This paper discusses hygiene campaigns in socialist Albania from the early 1960s up to 1970. During this period, communist authorities undertook…
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Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Claudia-Florentina Dobre, a Doctor Habilitation and Senior Researcher at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History in Bucharest, earned her Ph.D. in History from Laval University in Québec in 2007. Her dissertation focused on women’s memories of political persecution during the communist era. Dobre’s research encompasses various aspects of communist memory, including museums, memorials, monuments, deportation,…
Mihail Gruev
BOOK REVIEW Mihail Gruev Bulgarian Archives State Agency [michailgruev@abv.bg] An Objective and Critical Look at Mustafa Kemal and his Era Ханиоглу, М. Шукрю (2024). Ататюрк: История на идеи. София: УИ “Св. Климент Охридски”, ISBN – 978-954-07-5981-4, 196 с. Abstract: The review presents the Bulgarian translation of the book by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu „Atatürk: An Intellectual…
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
BOOK REVIEW Claudia-Florentina Dobre ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest [cfdobre@gmail.com] The Environment between Struggles and Heritage Antoine Heemeryck, Pascale Phélinas (eds.) (2022). L’environnenement entre luttes et patrimoine, Paris: L’Harmattan, ISBN-10. 2343254400, 271 p. Abstract: The review presents the edited volume “L’environnenement entre luttes et patrimoine”. This book explores the complex and often conflicting relationship…