Biographie de Zvonka Zupanic slavec
Zvonka Zupani ? Slavec, PhD, is a physician, medical historian, and professor of the history of medicine at the School of Medicine in Ljubljana. She has already written several other scholarly books on medicine, and her books have been published by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Press as well as Springer Publishing. Zupani ? Slavec completed the bachelor's program in medicine in 1984 at the School of Medicine in Ljubljana, where she also earned a master's degree and a PhD, both in the interdisciplinary areas of social medicine and the history of medicine.
After working for some time at various healthcare institutions and at the Ljubljana Medical Center, in 1987 she accepted a position at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Ljubljana's School of Medicine. She has led the institute since 1992, holds a professorship in the history of medicine, and lectures on the history of medicine and history of dentistry. Her technical, research, and journalism work addresses various areas, and especially focuses on the history of medicine in Slovenia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, about which she writes scholarly articles and longer works on the history of medicine.
She also publishes extensively in technical journals and contributes to radio and television broadcasts. Her education has included postgraduate study in Vienna, Padua, Prague, London, and Seattle.