Judith Forrai


Judith Forrai is a Hungarian historian of science, medical historian, dentist, professor, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope, a cultural, scientific and medical history journal.

Biography

Judith Forrai was born in Budapest, January 27, 1949. She is the creator of modern sexual education in her country via the school curriculum and as a textbook developer. Her research area is history of science and medicine, sexology, prostitution, STD story and sexual education. She is known for dissemination of health education for the disadvantaged, prevention activities, as well as social work being integrated into nationwide training for doctors, teachers, nurses and nurses. Forrai was affiliated with Semmelweis University, Institute of History of Medicine and Social Medicine, in Budapest. She published "Prostitution at the Turn of the Century in Budapest", and "Dental Practice in Hungary at the End of the Eighteenth Century".

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