The Orvostörténeti Közlemények is multilingual academic, peer-reviewed journal published annually.

The Central European region went through formative events in the years of 1918 and 1919. Former states disappeared while new states were born in the course of revolutions, civil wars and turbulent political events. The wave of migrants and refugees was one representative movement in these years while the different armies also changed territories, as did parts of countries in a very short period of time. Governments ceased to exist when new governments took their office. Former structures of health administration went though similar turbulent events when the epidemic struck the region. The effect of the epidemic in the light of these events has not been assessed in the region.

The journal intends to publish a thematic issue in 2002 on the history of the Spanish Flu epidemic in Central Europe. The region, in the broad sense of understanding, extends from Germany to Russia, and to the Balkans, including the present-day countries of the Baltic states, Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. We are especially interested in comparative approaches.

Possible themes should include

• the demographic impact of the epidemic,
• the spread of the disease,
• public and private memory of the epidemic,
• the role and effect of the epidemic on the political events of the region, especially in the formation of new states, and in revolutions and civil wars,
• the reaction of health administrations to the epidemic.

All correspondence should be sent to Mr. Laszlo Mathe-Shires or Mr. Benedek Varga at the email provided below.