Current Issue

Anelia Kassabova, Denitsa Nencheva, Jakub Střelec

MEDICAL PLURALISM REVISITED (Editorial)

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 NEGOTIATING MODERNITY: STATE MEDICINE AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Tiago Pires

Anthropology and Psychoanalysis in Ernesto de Martino’s Ethnopsychiatry

Inxhi Brisku
The Dialectics of Marxism and Neo-Freudianism: Ideological Dogmatism and the Limits of Criticism in Socialist Albania

Slava Savova
Re-Ottomanizing Modernity: Domesticating Balneology in Early to Mid-20th-century Bulgaria

Katarzyna Jarosz
Small Museums, Singular Figures – Curating Medical Breakthroughs in Public Exhibitions

BIOPOLITICS AND REPRODUCTIVE GOVERNANCE

Ina Dimitrova
“Everything for the Benefit of Man, Everything for the Sake of Man!”: Genetic Counselling in Socialist Bulgaria

Ivana Dobrivojević Tomić
Between Ideals and Reality: Contraception in Socialist Yugoslavia

Alexandra Barmpouti
DIY Abortion in Context (late 20th – 21st Century)

Judit Sándor and Mária Éva Földes
Medicalization of Death and Dying in Post-War Hungary
and the Netherlands. Taboo and Transparency in Legal Thinking

Sławomir Łotysz
The Fear of AIDS in Late Socialist Poland

Emil Antonov
Traditional Medicinal Rituals from Mexico Coming to Bulgaria: The Trip of Huichol People

Ulf Brunnbauer and Kathleen Beger
“Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe”

Tiago Pires
Why has it Become so Easy to be Decolonial? Historical Provocations from the Workshop “Culture and Psychiatric Paradigms During the Cold War”

Jakub Střelec
Workshop Report: Risk, Health, and State Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe, 1950s-1980s

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: THE AUTHOR PRESENTS

Mincho Georgiev
The Beginning of History (Anthropological Notes)

Victoria Shmidt
Reflections on Reductionism in the Historicization of Eugenics and the Possibility of its Revision

Fruzsina Müller
Sex Work between Agency and Control

Denitsa Nencheva
From the Side of the “Weak Opposite”: The Double Stigma on Mental Suffering

Jakub Střelec
Understanding State Socialism Through the Lens of Disability

Inxhi Brisku
Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Post-War Welfare State

Daniela Koleva
Mapping the Field of Care

Violeta Kotseva
Contribution to the History of Health Education in Bulgaria

Kristina Popova
The Age of “Tender Nails”: How Bulgarians Discovered Childhood in the 17th-19th Centuries

Mari Sengoku
The Healing Power of Ma and the Mind-Body Connection in Japanese Psychotherapies – Focusing on Morita Therapy, Naikan Therapy and Dohsa-hou