Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 68 (2026), Issue 1

Special Issue: Media and Epidemics in Eastern Europe, edited by Irina Nastasă-Matei & Magdalena Zdrodowska

Media and Epidemics in Eastern Europe. An Introduction
Irina Nastasă-Matei, Magdalena Zdrodowska

The Iconography and Symbolics of AIDS Postage Stamps in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe until 2011
Sławomir Łotysz, Magdalena Zdrodowska

Epidemic Fatigue? The Flu Epidemic of 1926-1927 in Czechoslovakia
Jan Surman

Preparing Bodies and Minds for the Socialist Future: Visualizing and Performing the Sanitary Struggle against Epidemics in Bulgaria in Early State Socialism (ca. 1950s)
Ina Dimitrova

Transnational Epidemics, National Cure: The Mass Media in Communist Romania on the Polidin Vaccine
Irina Nastasă-Matei

The Trials of Asociality: HIV/AIDS and the Struggle over the Nature of Socialist Society in Czechoslovakia
Katerina Kolářová

The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Media, and Disability Expertise in Ukraine
Sarah D. Phillips

Book Reviews