A new volume of the journal Acta Historiae Medicinae XLIII/2024/1 has been published. In this edition, biopolitical topics are covered with a special focus on the issue of military discipline on the front on the upper Rhine during the Nine Years’ War (1688-1697), the eighteenth-century treatment for equine bot fly, Habsburg border control policy against the spread of the plague, then on the first directors of Vienna Josephinum, the building of a modern and internationally standardized public health system in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as well as on artificial intelligence, transhumanism and biopolitics.
At the end of the issue, there are reviews of the books The Art of Medical Measurements of Santorio Santorio, edited by Zrinka Blažević, and Principles of the medicine of solids for the proper use of medical measurement by Đuro Baglivi.
The authors in this issue are Vladimir Abramović, Christopher Duffin, Miloš Đorđević, Roko Habek, Dubravko Habek, Zlatko Hrgović, Željko Dugac, Miroslav Popović, Nina Kulenović, Nataša Štefanec and Marta Jurković.
