Comments on the Article, Combatting Venereal Diseases as an Instrument of Politicised Medicine. An analysis of the example of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the Polish Peoples’ Republic by Marcin Orzechowski, Maximilian Schochow and Florian Steger

Abstract

The publication of articles by F. Steger, M. Schohow, M. Orzechowski 1 and I. Lipša 2 in the last two issues of the journal on the control of venereal diseases in the GDR, the Polish People Republic (PPR) and the Latvian SSR made it possible to expand joint academic interdisciplinary (historical, medical and socio-anthropological) research on this topic in four universities in Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

Keywords

• venereal disease
• public health
• legal regulations
• latvia
• lithuania
• estonia
• soviet medicine