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The Use of Oral Sources in Historical Research

Veselská, Natália

Oral sources bear several special and problematic characteristics. Paper deals with their main features. Oral sources offer data about historical events, phenomenon, and processes as well as narrator's personal experiences. Evaluations and interpretations of wider social and historical phenomena bear narrator's individuality and subjectivity. It is essential to place individual oral evidence in the broader context of past political, economical and structural circumstances. Time-lag between historical events and the recording of oral evidence must be taken into consideration.

The Society against Venereal Diseases in Slovakia in the Interwar Period

Falisová, Anna

During the interwar period special societies and associations were founded at several medicine departments in Slovakia. The Society against Venereal Diseases was one of them; its foundation was initiated by Professor Viktor Reinsberg, the head of the Dermato-venereal clinic at Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University in Bratislava. The Dermato-venereal clinic became an institutional basis for the development of dermato-venereology in Slovakia.

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