Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good

“The abandoned children of Bulgaria have no one..., once there was no one to complain about them, and we were their parents”

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popova
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 247 – 258., ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM – BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404315

Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Hergenröther, eds., Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging, Aging Studies, vol. 19, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021, 386 pp., €45 (paperback), ISBN: 978-3-8376-4554-5

Author(s): Daniela Koleva
Published in: Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 220-223, ISSN 1933-2890
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/asp.2022.160114

Heiner Fangerau, Anke Dreier-Horning, Volker Hess, Karsten Laudien, Maike Rotzoll (Hrsg). Leid und Unrecht. Kinder und Jugendliche in Behindertenhilfe und Psychiatrie der BRD und DDR 1949 bis 1990. Köln, 2021

Author(s): Georgi Todorov
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1 (2023), 2023, Page(s) 125-128, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405281

International Scientific Conference on “Transformations of Postwar Europe: Medicine, Bodies and Technologies”, Sofia, May 27-30, 2024.

Author(s): Denitsa Nencheva
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 240-346, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13497373

Manfred Kappeler and Anelia Kassabova in conversation. This extremely important experience showed the power that can emerge when young people, who were once the objects of ‘youth welfare’, decide for themselves how they want to live.

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 311-319, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13488782

“What is ‘Soviet’ about Soviet Ageing?” Book review of: Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts (ed by S. Grant and I.M. Scarborough)

Author(s): Daniela Koleva
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 325-329, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13495409

Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Hergenröther. (Eds.) Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging. Aging Studies, vol. 19. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021

Author(s): Daniela Koleva
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 13105213, 2021, Page(s) 632-636, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum - BAS

Erziehung zu ,Zucht und Ordnung'. Mädchenfürsorge in Deutschland (1871–1970)

Author(s): Hering, Sabine; Kassabova, Anelia
Published in: LHomme, Issue 31(1), 2023, Page(s) 113-120, ISSN 1016-362X
Publisher: V&R Unipress
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8059177

Healing Frames. Health Histories beyond ‘West’ and ‘East’ through the Lens of Cinema. Book review of: Victoria Shmidt, Karl Kaser (2023) A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. Routledge

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 330-339, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13496630

Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge

Author(s): Moreno, J. D., Sándor, J., and Schmidt, U.
Published in: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Issue 00315982, 2022, Page(s) 426–441, ISSN 0031-5982
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2022.0035

Perceptions of Research Integrity Climate in Hungarian Universities: Results from A Survey among Academic Researchers

Author(s): Anna Catharina Vieira Armond, Péter Kakuk
Published in: Science and Engineering Ethics, Issue 28, 2022, ISSN 1353-3452
Publisher: Opragen Publications
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-022-00382-5

Research integrity guidelines and safeguards in Brazil

Author(s): Anna Catharina Vieira Armond, Péter Kakuk
Published in: Accountability in Research, Issue 30, 2023, Page(s) 133-149, ISSN 0898-9621
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2021.1979969

The Secret Children of the Border Area. Closed Institutions for Children with Disabilities in Blagoevgrad Region in the 1960-es

Author(s): Kristina Popova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 13103970, 2022, Page(s) 163-190, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: "The Southwest University ""Neofit Rilski"""
DOI: 10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.11

Needs over rights: The right to health in state socialist Hungary and its implementation

Author(s): Márton Varjú, Judit Sándor
Published in: Pravni zapisi, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 191-217, ISSN 2217-2815
Publisher: Union University Law School
DOI: 10.5937/pravzap0-49493

Nők az állami és orvosi paternalizmus hálójában : A terhességmegszakítás engedélyezésének változó kontextusai 1954–1980 között Magyarországon

Author(s): Viola Lászlófi, Judit Sándor
Published in: Múltunk, Issue 70, 2025, Page(s) 128-167, ISSN 0864-960X
Publisher: Napvilag Kiado
DOI: 10.56944/multunk.2025.1.5

Poliomyelitis in Bulgaria – Epidemics and Health Policies (40s – 60s of the 20th Century)

Author(s): Kalina Anchova
Published in: Bulgarian ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 151 – 169, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM - BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404181

"The ""Modernization"" of the Menstruating Female Body During the Period of State Socialism"

Author(s): Mila Bankova
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 11-29, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405118

'A Child of Misfortune': Eugenics and Children Reception Centres in Post-War Britain

Author(s): David Peace
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 33(3), 2024, Page(s) 55-85, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: "The Southwest University ""Neofit Rilski"""
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13464266

Mental Asylum as a Political and Social Metaphor in the Cinema from the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain.

Author(s): Gergana Doncheva
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 227-239, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13483448

Socialist Modernization: Institutions and Life Paths

Author(s): Kassabova, Anelia; Daniela Koleva
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 5-10, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405064

The Vaccination Cold War.

Author(s): Jonathan D. Moreno; Judit Sándor; Ulf Schmidt
Published in: The Hastings Center Report, Issue 1552146X, 2021, Page(s) 12–17, ISSN 1552-146X
Publisher: The Hastings Center
DOI: 10.1002/hast.1282

Establishment and Operation of the First Elders’ Care Institution in Albania.

Author(s): Inxhi Brisku
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 66 – 82, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM - BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405216

The Geriatric Patient under the Frame of Modern Medical Methodologism: Expert Discourses, Practical Applications, and Philosophical Implications

Author(s): Nencheva, Denitsa
Published in: Notabene, Issue 65, 2024, ISSN 1313-7859
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14175273

Decolonization of Mental Health? The Early Days of an Ongoing Process from a Global Historical Perspective

Author(s): Tiago Pires
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 189 – 209, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM - BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404235

A Lawyer’s Legacy: The Significance of the Dániel Karsai v. Hungary Case

Author(s): Judit Sándor
Published in: Pravni Zapisi, Issue Vol 15 issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 311-326, ISSN 2217-2815
Publisher: Union University Law School

Annulment Actions and the V4: Taking Legislative Conflicts Before the CJEU

Author(s): Marton Varju, Veronika Czina, Katalin Cseres, Ernő Várnay
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/pag.7473

Self-Assessments, Values and Mental Health of Elderly People from the Bulgarian Rural Population

Author(s): Ignat Petrov
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1 (2023), 2023, Page(s) 83-99, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405254

From War Wounds to Welfare: Caring for Albania's Elderly in the Transition to Socialism (1945–1948).

Author(s): Inxhi Brisku
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 240-263, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13485305

To Walk Again? The Children's Sanatorium in Momin Prohod for the Rehabilitation of Children with Poliomyelitis

Author(s): Kalina Anchova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 86–107, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13465780

Social Construction and Ideologization of Disease – Tuberculosis in Bulgaria 1944 – 1951 .

Author(s): Milena Angelova
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 537-555, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum - BAS

The Problems of Medicine and Healthcare in the USSR after the Second World War on the Pages of the Soviet Specialized Press.

Author(s): Gamza, Volodimir
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 229 – 246, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM - BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404258

Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary

Author(s): Péter Kakuk, Judit Sándor
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 431-443, ISSN 1386-7423
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-024-10218-7

Visionarity and Health: The Semashko Model and the Sovietization of Public Health in Bulgaria (1944–1951)

Author(s): Milena Angelova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 13103970, 2021, Page(s) 74-103, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: "The Southwest University ""Neofit Rilski"""
DOI: 10.37708/bf.swu.v30i3.4

Women Facing the Committee: Decision-Making on Abortion in Postwar Hungary

Author(s): Judit Sándor, Viola Lászlófi
Published in: Hungarian Historical Review, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 493-523, ISSN 2063-8647
Publisher: Institute of History, Research Center for the Humanities, Center of Excellence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN)
DOI: 10.38145/2023.3.493

Geschlossene Einrichtungen und soziale Fürsorge für Mädchen in Bulgarien in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Author(s): Kristina, Popova
Published in: L`Homme, Issue 34, 2023, ISSN 1016-362X
Publisher: University of Vienna

Children's Health Camp in Bulgaria During the Socialist Period

Author(s): Ilieva, Radina
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 48-65, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405193

"""Our Inmate won from TOTO-2"". About the Life in Home № 8 for Children and Adolescents with Mental Disabilities in Sofia"

Author(s): Todorov, Georgi
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 30-47, ISSN 2367-6892
Publisher: IEFSEM-BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8405179

Dr Vladimir Kalaydzhiev or the Embodiment of Modernity

Author(s): Mincho Georgiev, Anelia Kassabova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 13103970, 2021, Page(s) 125-147, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: "The Southwest University ""Neofit Rilski"""
DOI: 10.37708/bf.swu.v30i3.6

Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Polish Relations through Medical and Scientific Exchanges, 1939-1956

Author(s): Ulf Schmidt, Will Studdert, Edward Corse
Published in: Slavonic and East European Review, 2024, ISSN 2222-4327
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.16070

Art, Culture, and Psychopathology: an Introduction to the Anti-asylum Narrative of Brazilian Psychiatrist Nise da Silveira

Author(s): Pires, Tiago, & Maria Eduarda de Freitas Xavier, M.
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 209-226, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13482380

Health and Healthcare – Visible Priorities, Invisible Issues

Author(s): Kassabova, Anelia; Popova, Kristina
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 145-150, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM – BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14178696

Corruption practices in Homes for Children with Intellectual Disabilities and Neuropsychiatric Hospitals in the People's Republic of Bulgaria during the 1940s-1970s. 3

Author(s): Georgi Todorov
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 139-153, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13470077

Kassabova, Anelia und Sandra Maß: Kinder in Heimen. Editorial. - L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History 34, 1 (2023), 7-18.

Author(s): Kassabova, Anelia; Maß, Sandra
Published in: L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History, Issue 34 (1), 2023, Page(s) 7-18, ISSN 2194-5071
Publisher: V&R unipress
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8042157

Az életvégi önrendelkezés és a láthatatlan vasfüggöny

Author(s): null Sándor Judit
Published in: Fundamentum Az emberi jogok folyóirata, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 24-34, ISSN 1588-0508
Publisher: Eötvös Loránd University
DOI: 10.70538/fundamentum.2024.2-3.3

The Long and Short Twentieth Century: an Exploration of Institutional Care

Author(s): Kassabova, Anelia; Popova, Kristina; Angelova, Milena
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 9-13, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: "The South-West University ""Neofit Rilski"""
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14224585

Neither Nature Nor Progress: Unearthing Memories and Affects on the Flowering Benches of Kremikovtsi Open-pir Mine

Author(s): Savova, Slava
Published in: Journal of Cities and Culture a Journal of Cities and Culture, Issue 9(2), 2024, ISSN 2767-8148
Publisher: Rotterdam, Netherlands
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14175547

Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case

Author(s): Daniela Koleva, Ignat Petrov
Published in: History of the Human Sciences, Issue 36(3-4), 2024, Page(s) 178-201, ISSN 0952-6951
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09526951231178434

Archival Reading of the Visible and Invisible Images and Traces of (or about) Social Care and Health Care in Bulgaria in the Period 1945-1989

Author(s): Mariyana Piskova
Published in: Bulgarian Ethnology, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 170 – 188, ISSN 1310-5213
Publisher: IEFSEM - BAS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404213

The Bulgarian Socialist Reproductive Policies - Structures, Persons, Strategies

Author(s): Kassabova, Anelia
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 32(1), 2023, Page(s) 145–164, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.37708/bf.swu.v32i1.9

Genome Editing: Learning from Its Past and Envisioning Its Future

Author(s): Judit Sandor
Published in: European Journal of Health Law, Issue 29, 2023, Page(s) 341-358, ISSN 0929-0273
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
DOI: 10.1163/15718093-bja10081

Erziehung zu ,Zucht und Ordnung’. Mädchenfürsorge in Deutschland (1871–1970)

Author(s): Hering, Sabine, und Anelia Kassabova
Published in: L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, Issue 34(1), 2023, ISSN 1016-362X
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.14220/lhom.2023.34.1.113

Grounding the history of modern warfare: An extended book review of Peter Thompson's <i>The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany</i>

Author(s): Ulf Schmidt
Published in: Natural Sciences, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2698-6248
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20230021

Aging and Institutional Care During Late Socialism: The Case of the Elderly People’s Home in the Village of Pelishat, Bulgaria

Author(s): Denitsa Nencheva
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 264–292, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13485931

From Nuremberg to Helsinki: Historicizing the Codification of Post-War Research Ethics

Author(s): Ulf Schmidt
Published in: Ethical Innovation for Global Health, 2023, Page(s) 149-174
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-6163-4_9

The Covid Pandemic in Hungary: Lessons from a Human Rights Perspective

Author(s): Judit Sándor
Published in: Ethical Issues of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in East-Central Europe and Beyond, Issue September 2024, 2024, Page(s) 21-39, ISBN 978-615-6696-41-0
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
DOI: 10.22618/tp.tst.2024.296.002

Avortement en Hongrie : tension entre un cadre juridique relativement libéral et une politique nataliste

Author(s): Judit Sándor
Published in: L’interruption de grossesse en droit compare. Entre cultures et universalisme, 2022, Page(s) 323-336, ISBN 2802770977
Publisher: Bru
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14235812

Gesundheit als Politik: Taming the European Leviathan. Skizze eines Forschungsvorhabens

Author(s): Hess, Volker
Published in: Was ist Gesundheit? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur, 2021, Page(s) 253-262, ISBN 9783110713336
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110713336

The Covid Pandemic in Hungary

Author(s): Judit Sándor
Published in: Ethical Issues of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in East-Central Europe and Beyond, Issue 1, 2024, ISBN 978-615-6696-42-7
Publisher: Trivent

The Crisis of Biopolitics or Biopoliticizing the Crisis?*

Author(s): Viola Lászlófi
Published in: East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century, 2024, Page(s) 343-367
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003438298-17

Legal Debates on Reproduction in Hungary

Author(s): Judit Sándor
Published in: Festskrift till Elisabeth Rynning, 2023, Page(s) 319-331, ISBN 9789177372356
Publisher: Iustus Förlag
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14235672

Institutional Care in Europe in the 20th Century

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popova, Milena Angelova
Published in: Balkanistic Forum, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1310-3970
Publisher: The South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13500445

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Stimulate Interdisciplinary Scientific Research

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova
Published in: ETHNOLOGY AND EPIDEMICS Sociocultural Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Page(s) 39-50, ISBN 978-619-245-094-6
Publisher: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5834306

Etnikai kategorizálás a magyar humángenetikai diskurzusban

Author(s): Barna Szamosi
Published in: Szellem és Tudomány, Issue 2-3, 2024, Page(s) 109-128, ISSN 2062-204X
Publisher: Miskolci Egyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar ATTI Szociológiai Intézeti Tanszék

Politische Medizin: Das Ministerium für Gesundheitswesen der ddr 1950 bis 1970, written by Jutta Braun

Author(s): Volker Hess
Published in: European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, Issue 81, 2025, Page(s) 460-463, ISSN 2666-7703
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/26667711-20241206

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