Soviet medicine : culture, practice, and science / editors, Frances L. Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernstein, Frances Lee.

Burton, Christopher

Healey, Dan

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Soviet Union--History.

Medicine.

Social medicine--Soviet Union--History.

Social medicine.

Medicine--Practice--Soviet Union--History.

Public health--Soviet Union--History.

Public health.

History.

Medicine--Practice.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2010]

Summary:

Thanks to the opening of archives and the forging of exchanges between Russian and Western scholars interested in the history of medicine, it is now possible to write new forms of social and political history in the Soviet medical field. Using the lenses of critical social histories of healthcare and medical science, and looking at both new material from Russian archives and interviews with those who experienced the Soviet health system, the contributors to this volume explore the ways experts and the Soviet state radically reshaped medical provision after the Revolution of 1917. Soviet Medicine presents the work of an international group of leading scholars. Twelve essays--treating subjects that span the 74-year history of the Soviet Union--cover such diverse topics as how epidemiologists handled plague on the Soviet borderlands in the revolutionary era, how venereologists fighting sexually transmitted disease struggled to preserve the patient's right to secrecy, and how Soviet forensic experts falsified the evidence of the Katyn Forest massacre of 1940. This important volume demonstrates the crucial role played by medical science, practice, and culture in the shaping of a modern Soviet Union and illustrates how the study of Soviet medical history can benefit historians of medicine, science, the Soviet Union, and social and gender historians.

Contents:

Introduction: Experts, expertise, and new histories of Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey

Toward a Soviet psychiatry : war and the organization of mental health care in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina

Fighting plague in southeast European Russia, 1917-25 : a case study in early Soviet medicine / Dmitry Mikhel

Foreign expertise on Russian terrain : Max Kuczynski on the Kirghiz steppe, 1923-24 / Susan Gross Solomon

Behind the closed door : VD and medical secrecy in early Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein

Defining sexual maturity as the Soviet alternative to an age of consent / Dan Healey

Vaccination against tuberculosis with BCG : a study of innovation in Soviet public health, 1925-41 / Michael Z. David

Between power and experts : Soviet doctors examine Katyń / Marina Sorokina

Medical expertise and the 1946-47 famine : the identification and treatment of a state-induced illness / Veniamin F. Zima

"Abortion is killing us" : women's medicine and the dilemmas for postwar doctors in the Soviet Union, 1944-48 / Mie Nakachi

The political economy of water supply under late Stalinism / Don Filtzer

Destalinization as detoxification? : the expert debate on industrial toxins under Khrushchev / Christopher Burton

White coats and tea with raspberry jam : caring for sick children in late Soviet Russia / Catriona Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780875804262

0875804268

OCLC:

614988726

Publisher Number:

99940908885