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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116523 Alexandra Barmpouti, PhD Independent researcher [alexandrabarbouti@gmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0002-0345-6295 https://oxfordbrookes.academia.edu/AlexandraBarmpouti DIY Abortion in Context (late 20th – 21st Century) Abstract: Reproductive choices are strategic life choices. The decision to continue or interrupt a pregnancy is influenced by personal lifestyle, beliefs, and values, notwithstanding social biases and politics. The choice of the method to achieve an…

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116508 Ivana Dobrivojević Tomić, PhD Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade – Serbia [ivanadobrivojevic@hotmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0001-5210-3288 Between Ideals and Reality: Contraception in Socialist Yugoslavia Abstract: This study examines the evolution of contraception in Yugoslavia, focusing on the state’s policies, medical perspectives, and societal attitudes toward birth control. It explores how government initiatives…

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…

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…