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KÖZLEMÉNYEK - COMMUNICATIONS - Szabó Katalin: A tudományos ismeretterjesztés lehetőségei a fővárosi lapok tárcarovatában, a 19. sz. második felében

parányi szeletét képezik. A hasonló tematikában, vagy hasonló intencióval alkotott tárcákkal való összehasonlítás további kutatásokat igényelne, hiszen az összehasonlításokból a tendenciákra, további összefüggésekre, a jelenség elterjedtségére is lehetne következtetni. KATALIN SZABÓ, M.A. Museologist Semmelweis Museum for the History of Medicine H-1013 Budapest, Apród u.1-3. E-mail: Semmelweis@museum.hu HUNGARY SUMMARY Enlightenment in health issues has always been a structural part of the generally meant healing activities. The ways of addressing the people changed along with the centuries: the press was the right medium to inform wide masses of different classes of people in the 19

th century. The feuilleton was one of the popular styles used by the press, nevertheless it grew out it's classical frames, and gained the most various themes during the second half of the century. So the feuilletons on natural sciences written by medical doctors concerning health issues appeared as well. These writings represent the natural sciences' knowledge of the comfortable and popular sort of positivism and national program spanning from Zsigmond Kemény to Eötvös, where the reader has to feel it's practical use in the everyday life. It is the scientific knowledge that is interpreted through these feuilletons on the firtst place, but on the other hand a specific way of reception of natural sciences can be traced by them. Their particularity lies at the intersection of the most possible subjective description of the objective facts: possible historical readings of medical, literary and social sciences. This paper tries to catch these moments through the feuilletons of István Apáthy, Tihamér Balogh and Miklós Dubay.