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Issue 2 / 2023. HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE – VISIBLE PRIORITIES, INVISIBLE ISSUES. Issue Editors: Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popov

 Table of Contents

Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popova – Health and healthcare – visible priorities, invisible issues. 

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

Mariyana Piskova – 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.

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

RESEARCH

Diana Radoynova – Revitalizing Ancient Practices for Energy Therapy and Recovery from Neopagan and Neoesoteric Communities in Bulgaria. 

MATERIALS

Volodimir Gamza – The Problems of Medicine and Healthcare in the USSR After the Second World War on the Pages of the Soviet Specialized Press. 

INTERVIEW 

An Interview by A. Kasabova and K. Popova with Dr. I. Panova – “The abandoned children of Bulgaria have no one...once there was no one to complain about them, and we were their parents”.

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES

Stela Nenova, Elena Vodinchar – “Let us Bind a Martenitsa” – exhibition in the National Ethnographic Museum. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Georgeta Nazarska – Zafer, Z., N. Muratova. Mefkyure Mollova: Turkology in exile. A biographical study. Blagoevgrad, 2022.

Sonya Sredkova – G. Georgiev. Traditions, Memory and Identity of the Bulgarians in Ukraine and Moldova (The Dynamics of Culture in the Diaspora). 

ACADEMIC LIFE

Zlatina Bogdanova – Sixteenth SIEF Congress “Living Uncertainty” in Brno, Czech Republic, 7 – 10 June 2023.