Soviet medicine
Subtitle: culture, practice, and science
By: editors, Frances L. Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780875804262
Subjects: Social medicine; Public health; Practice; Social Medicine; Health Policy; Medicine; Medical policy; Public Health; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Experts, expertise, and new histories of Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey; title: Toward a Soviet psychiatry : war and the organization of mental health care in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina; title: Fighting plague in southeast European Russia, 1917-25 : a case study in early Soviet medicine / Dmitry Mikhel; title: Foreign expertise on Russian terrain : Max Kuczynski on the Kirghiz steppe, 1923-24 / Susan Gross Solomon; title: Behind the closed door : VD and medical secrecy in early Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein; title: Defining sexual maturity as the Soviet alternative to an age of consent / Dan Healey; title: Vaccination against tuberculosis with BCG : a study of innovation in Soviet public health, 1925-41 / Michael Z. David; title: Between power and experts : Soviet doctors examine Katyń / Marina Sorokina; title: Medical expertise and the 1946-47 famine : the identification and treatment of a state-induced illness / Veniamin F. Zima; title: "Abortion is killing us" : women's medicine and the dilemmas for postwar doctors in the Soviet Union, 1944-48 / Mie Nakachi; title: The political economy of water supply under late Stalinism / Don Filtzer; title: Destalinization as detoxification? : the expert debate on industrial toxins under Khrushchev / Christopher Burton; title: White coats and tea with raspberry jam : caring for sick children in late Soviet Russia / Catriona Kelly.