ACTA HISTORIAE MEDICINAE STOMATOLOGIAE PHARMACIAE MEDICINAE VETERINARIAE

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Publisher: Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture, Belgrade

ISSN 0352-7840 (print)

ISSN 2466-2925 (online)

UDK 61+615+616.31+619(091)

DOI 10.25106/ahm

Frequency: biannual

The journal Acta Historiae is an open access (CC BY) external double-blind peer reviewed academic periodical; every manuscript is evaluated by two independent experts on the subject matter. The journal publishes original scientific articles, review articles, short scientific articles, reviews and bibliographies from fields of history of medicine, medical deontology, history of mentality, private life, urban and rural everyday life and living conditions, structure of urban and rural settlements, history, demography, boundaries, as well as the history of architecture and urban planning in the context of history, culture and health care institutions.

The first issue of the journal was published in 1961 and for three decades it was one of the most modern, open and dynamic Yugoslavian journals.

The journal is also available on the Copernicus and CEEOL databases.

Editor in chief is prof. dr Nikola Samardžić


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Upotreba vode u ličnoj higijeni čoveka srednjovekovne Srbije
Upotreba vode u ličnoj higijeni čoveka srednjovekovne Srbije
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show the history of personal hygiene in medieval Serbia. The everyday use of water in personal hygiene (washing of one’s face, hands and feet, bathing, laundry) is documented in medical writings, archaeological findings and visual art. There is a suppression of public baths during the Middle Ages, but the emergence of private baths is evident, along with arrangement of spas (public baths) at thermal sources.
Urbana bezbednost i prevencija uličnog kriminala kao preduslovi za razvoj zdrave zajednice
Urbana bezbednost i prevencija uličnog kriminala kao preduslovi za razvoj zdrave zajednice
Summary/Abstract: Th e World Health Organization (WHO) classifies community safety of crime in the category of natural disasters, fires, traffic and other accidents, in which the major role is played by the ability of the community to react, prevent, help or reduce negative effects. Also,The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime gives even wider focus on community safety, considering it as a public good. One of the generally accepted definitions that „the safety it the basis is the freedom of the threats“, which gives interpretation on higher level of overall safety (state, national), but it could be adapted on the level of urban space and feelings of its users. Th e basis for violent (criminal, sexist or racist) behavior toward some distinct categories of the population lays in general social and economic situation of the society,which is transferred to city streets. Th e reality and seriousness of the street violence leads to general feeling of the insecurity in communities and insecurity of urban spaces, which leads to its reduced use. Th ere is an increase of clinic cases of the contemporary urban disease of agoraphobia, that originally signified fear of open space, but nowadays the implications of this term are the assemblage of fears in connection with the open spaces and great amount of people and the fear of suddenly incapacity to run away or seek for help. It is necessary to define and establish the conditions for the community safety in order to receive the positive result of the crime prevention; in order to be treated as the aspect of the quality of life, in which the people, individually or collectively, are in best possible way protected of potential dangers or threats that are consequences of the criminal or antisocial behavior of other parts of society.Th e sense of insecurity in the public urban spaces has two dimensions, the objective and subjective. Th e objective is supported by realistic events in space and subjective is topic of the personal feelings of the citizens, based equally on objective dimension as on single rating of the acceptance and tolerance of reality, weakness or courage, readiness to resist and to oppose to the violence in surrounding. How one person will react depends of the development of his/her senses, which are partially destined by the social status.
Urbani javni prostor i zdravstvena kultura u Beogradu
Urbani javni prostor i zdravstvena kultura u Beogradu
Summary/Abstract: Following the general urbicide policy from the last decade of the 20th century, urban and social degradation of Belgrade is revealing new tendencies and features during the actual 2000s: institutional incompetence and corruption, collapse of health care system and public health generally, media criminalization of doctors,professors of medicine and medical staff , obliteration of cultural institutions, pressures on small and medium business initiatives as strongholds of labor and capitalist ethics,public promotion of unhealthy lifestyle, public and institutional tolerance (even support) of extremism directed against minority groups.
When Citizens Become Activists – Negotiating Urban Space in Belgrade
When Citizens Become Activists – Negotiating Urban Space in Belgrade
Summary/Abstract: Looking at the emergence of urban movements in Belgrade, this paper examines bike activists and their struggle for urban space. More specifically, it analyzes how the bike activists perceive themselves and their activism. In this regard, we argue that the notion of građanin serves as a decisive marker of the activists’ urban identity and their urban contestation. Stressing that they are citizens who are committed to making Belgrade a nicer and more livable city, the activists play down the political dimension of their engagement while successfully positioning them in opposition to politicians, authorities and political activists. Furthermore, the activists’spatial strategies reflect the specific context in which the bike activism is taking place. With their ‘do-it-yourself-actions’ and their emphasis on fun elements, the peaceful character of their activities and the simultaneous avoidance of political messages, the activists aim to distance themselves from mainstream politics while seeking to promote public support for their cause. Consequently, the activists’ engagement for cycling in the city discloses a new field of agency by offering them an alternative way to articulate their critique towards politicians and authorities.
Women and Eugenics in Interwar Transylvania
Women and Eugenics in Interwar Transylvania
Summary/Abstract: My paper will focus on the eugenic movement of the Transylvanian medical society in the interwar period. The article attempt to chart the elements in this discourse related to gender and sexuality and will analyze what kinds of transition exist between different gender constructions related to women in this eugenic point of view. Therefore my presentation desires to be the analysis of relations along the oppositions between us and them, feminine and masculine, local and stranger, usual and unusual.
XVIII SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ‘RIJEKA AND ITS CITIZENS IN MEDICAL HISTORY’ (‘RIJEKA I RIJEČANI U MEDICINSKOJ POVJESNICI’)
XVIII SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ‘RIJEKA AND ITS CITIZENS IN MEDICAL HISTORY’ (‘RIJEKA I RIJEČANI U MEDICINSKOJ POVJESNICI’)
Summary/Abstract: XVIII. Scientifi c conference ‘Rijeka and its Citizens in Medical History’ (‘Rijeka i Riječani u medicinskoj povjesnici’) was held in Rijeka on the 9th November 2018. Organized by the Croatian Scientifi c Society for the History of the Health Culture (Hrvatsko znanstveno društvo za povijest zdravstvene kulture) the mentioned conference is held annually in Rijeka on the second Friday in November each year since the millennial year 2000.
Značaj arhitekte Stanka Kliske u unapređenju zdravstvene kulture Beograda u periodu nakon Drugog svetskog rata
Značaj arhitekte Stanka Kliske u unapređenju zdravstvene kulture Beograda u periodu nakon Drugog svetskog rata
Summary/Abstract: The architect Stanko Kliska (Snagovo, Bosnia, September 15th 1896 – Belgrade, October 3rd 1969) is a representative of the generation of young intellectuals adopting the Yugoslav idea. His creative work between the two world wars is connected to the city of Zagreb. World War II interrupts Zagreb period of his independent and very successful activity in this city and brings him as a refugee to Belgrade where he stays with his family to live and work till the end of his life. After the public competition in 1950, Stanko Kliska was elected for the associate professor of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, in the subject Social buildings. He takes over lecturing in the group of the professor D. Leko about medical buildings and manages practical work in the same field. With his work Inf uence of patients’ room on the development of modern hospital he becomes full professor in 1957 in the subject Design of medical buildings, when he was appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. Belgrade period in the work of Stanko Kliska is characterized by numerous projects, some of them realized and some again not. Between them are distinguished: Sanatorium of FNRJ Government (Belgrade 1947-1949); Draft Master Plan and program draft for the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade (1952); Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Belgrade (1949–1956); General hospital in Zenica (1950); General hospital in Tuzla (1956), etc. His competence, professional courage, consistency and modesty where the reason why he was accepted in Belgrade as a respected architect and professor of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. Kliska died in 1969 in Belgrade, and three days later was buried in Mirogoj cemetery, Zagreb.
Život na gradskoj margini
Život na gradskoj margini
Summary/Abstract: After the end of the First World War, Belgrade became the capital of the new state – Kingdom of SCS/Yugoslavia. It has experienced the great immigration of surrounding rural population, but also the influx of educated and persons with special training or skills (clerks, administrative staff , soldiers, officers, businessmen etc.), as it was demanded by Belgrade’s new status of political, administrative, economic and military center of the new state. This enormous immigration – population had doubled in the first ten years after the war – underlined the already present problem of inadequate housing. As a result of that conjuncture, residents of Belgrade were forced to rent small, unhealthy and overcrowded apartments. Those less fortunate resorted to constructing slums on the edges of the urban zone, thus creating unhygienic settlements, which became breeding grounds for various infectious diseases. Tuberculosis was the most prevalent among them, and the statistics show that it accounted for 25% of all causes of death. As contemporary statistics point out, around 80% of Belgraders were either poor, or living close to the poverty margin. This information enables us to take a sobering look on interwar Belgrade, which was often portrayed in a romanticized fashion in literature, art, film, and even academic or scholarly work. The statistics and photo documentation cast a different light on our subject, allowing the emergence of a much darker side of Yugoslav capital in period 1919–1941.

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