Epidemic infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, and more recently COVID-19, have persistent devastating impacts in human populations across the globe. In this Review essay, we consider together monographs Illusions (Richardson 2021) Fevers, Feuds, Diamonds (Farmer 2020), as well documentary film Bending Arc (Davidson Kos 2017), Together, they demonstrate history of transnationa...

The number of disabled school children in Hungary is about 30-40 thousand per annum. This statistic is too high to be ignored. We are still collating the results of anthropological research on the disabled which has been completed or is still in progress in Hungary. Some of these studies also concern the subjects’ physique. Comparing the results with earlier studies, the secular trend can be sh...