Public Health and Social Diseases. Combating Tuberculosis in Bulgaria 1912-1939
Public Health and Social Diseases. Combating Tuberculosis in Bulgaria 1912-1939

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with social policies and public health practices with respect to the so called “social diseases” and in particular to tuberculosis in Bulgaria from the turn of 19th up to the 1930s. The examination of social diseases (tuberculosis, malaria, venereal diseases, alcoholism, cancer, etc.) gives an excellent example for assessing the relationship between society and disease in this period.

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