Наталия Шок

Navigating Late USSR Family Planning. Scattered Narratives from Demography and Medicine.

Nataliya Shok and Nadezhda Beliakova
The history of Soviet family planning policy is а complex subject involving several important agents, including demographers, physicians, women, and the state. The perspective of each has its own scope that pertains to а particular focus in historical research-women’s history, medical history, economic and sociopolitical histories. Navigating around these complexities requires interdisciplinary methodology.

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Richard Fronschtein: unknown facts of biography. Student years (1900–1907)

Iuliia V. Kuzmina, Nataliya P. Shok.
This article is dedicated to the study of the professional biography of R.M. Fronsсhtein (1882–1949), who entered medical history as the founder of the Russian school of urology. In their comprehensive work on creating a historically reliable picture of the establishment and development of the clinical and fundamental specialties in the history of Russian medicine, the authors, using a historical-biographical method, have made an attempt to reconstruct and analyze the circumstances related to R.M. Fronsсhtein’s studies at the Medical Department of Imperial Moscow University (1900–1907).

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The history of medicine as an academic discipline: traditions in clinical medical education and modern teaching methods

Nataliya P. Shok, Mariya S. Sergeeva.
The authors examine current methodological issues, concerning the historical and contemporary significance of the history of medicine in the system of higher medical education and the development of doctors’ professional competency. The fact that courses on the history of medicine traditionally have had a dual nature in the framework of the educational process is demonstrated. At present, methodically it is part of a general theoretical block of fundamental disciplines, methodologically continuing to solve issues as a propaedeutic discipline, ensuring continuity not only between curriculum subjects in one specialization but also between different levels of medical higher education.

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I.P. Pavlov: a scholar and authority

Nikita Yu. Pivovarov, Nataliya P. Shok.
Using an analysis of archival materials about academic I.P. Pavlov, the authors of the article propose that the historical and biographical information about this leading scientist can present a fuller picture not only of an individual specialization but of medical science in general. The relationship is examined between I.P. Pavlov and the leadership of the Soviet state, which had a particular infl uence on the development of Russian science in 1920–1930s.

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“For World Peace”: humanism and ethics of global safety in the ideological policy of the Soviet leadership( 1956-1962)

Nataliya Shok, Nikita Pivovarov.
The article is devoted to peacemaking policy of the Soviet leadership during 1956-1962, the period when the USSR gradually moved from an open confrontation to a peaceful competition. The main attention is paid to the analysis of the ideas of the Soviet leadership in the field of global biosafety and bioethics.

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On the history of the ban on abortion in the USSR: the views of the authorities and Soviet public opinion from the perspective of bioethics (1935–1936)

Nikita Yu. Pivovarov, Nataliya P. Shok.
This article looks at the debate in the USSR in 1935–1936 on banning abortions. This episode of Soviet history has enormous heuristic potential for researchers studying the Soviet period. At fi rst sight, the bill to ban abortions appears simply a matter of historical medical fact, based on which we can in many ways draw conclusions about the situation in healthcare in general, and in obstetrics and gynaecology in particular.

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The USSR and China from the perspective of healthcare development in the 50s. of XXth century: tradition – innovation – integration

Nagornykh Olga Stanislavovna, Shok Nataliia Petrovna.
The study attempts to discuss one of the relevant and poorly studied pages of the history of global health of the Soviet-Chinese cooperation in medicine in the 1950s. The work also shows the importance of rethinking the importance of traditional methods of Chinese medicine, which allow us to study aspects of these traditions and Soviet innovations in the tested. The perspective of the work is aimed at identifying the main directions of this cooperation.

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The Evolution of the Concept “bioethics” in theDynamics of the Soviet and Chinese History ofMedicine

Olga Nagornykh, Natalia Shock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18254/S207987840021761-6
The article analyzes the formation and development of the concept of bioethics in the historical
context of the Chinese and Soviet reality. The reasons for slow reception of bioethics in the Soviet
and Chinese medical communities are considered. Separately, the phenomenon of Confucian
bioethics is investigated in the context of its perception in the practice of medicine in China.

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Soviet Medicine in the Cold War: the Experience ofInternational Cooperation and Geopolitical Influence(Second Half of the 1940s — 1970s)

Nikita Pivovarov, Natalia Shock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18254/S207987840020707-6
The article is devoted to the transformation of Soviet medical science and practice under the
conditions of the development of international relations after World War II. The main attention was
placed on the study of scientific and social medical projects, which were implemented by the USSR
during the Cold War under the influence of foreign policy trends and priorities.

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Pythagorean Legacy in Medicine

Nataliya Shok, Andrey Shcheglov.
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-307-314
Article focuses on the influence of Pythagorean teaching on medicine. This allows to examine the history of medicine as part of the philosophy and history of science. Among the philosophical ideas of the Pythagoreans significant to medicine was highlighted the ideas of opposites, mathematical proof and harmony.

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