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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT

The Department “Medical Anthropology” was established as a temporary structural unit at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2021. It is part of the project “European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good” [H2020 ERC -2019-SyG; GA ID: 854503 (Leviathan), financed by ERC Synergy Grant, Horizon 2020] with Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Volker Hess, Director Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charite – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin (Charite), Prof. Dr. Ulf Schmidt, History, University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Judit Sandor, Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies, KozepEuropai Egyetem (Central European University), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anelia Kassabova, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.