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Social history of Soviet medicine

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

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

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.

Social history of Soviet medicine

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

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

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).

Social history of Soviet medicine

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

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

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.

Social history of Soviet medicine

I.P. Pavlov: a scholar and authority

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

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.

Social history of Soviet medicine

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

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

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.

Social history of Soviet medicine

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)

Наталия Шок2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

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.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The peacemaking movement of the USSR in the late 1940s – early 1960s: Christian denominations and the ethics of international humanistic dialogue

Наталия Шок2 months ago1 month ago05 mins

Nikita Iu. Pivovarov, Vitaly V. Tikhonov, Nataliya P. Shok.
The article analyzes the activities of the Christian denominations of the USSR in the Soviet peacekeeping movement on the basis of various sources. The choice of Christian denominations is due to the fact that representatives of these denominations were the most prominent in the Soviet peacemaking movement in the late 1940s and early 1960s. The article consists of two sections. The first section covers the main organizational issues.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The business trips of the Soviet doctors to the PRC in the 1950s–1960s: implementation of cooperation plans in the field of medicine and healthcare.

Наталия Шок2 months ago1 month ago04 mins

Olga S. Nagornykh, Nataliya P. Shok.
The article is devoted to the study of organization of the Soviet doctors and specialists’ business trips to China in the 1950s-1960s. The goal is to determine the tasks of trips, their features, and results. The work also demonstrates previously unknown facts in historiography, based on archival data, concerning the continuation of cooperation in the field of medicine after the rupture of diplomatic relations between the USSR and China.

Social history of Soviet medicine

Media Narratives in the Social History of Medicine: the Case Study of the 1949 Khabarovsk Trial

Наталия Шок2 months ago1 month ago02 mins

O.S. Nagornykh, N.P. Shok.
In the article, the authors explore media narratives of the tribunal held in December 1949 in Khabarovsk over Japanese doctors recognized as war criminals involved in the development and use of bacteriological weapons, as well as conducting medical experiments on humans that are incompatible with the norms of morality and ethics of medicine.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The Cholera Epidemic in the Border Territories of the Far East in the Early 20th Century

Наталия Шок2 months ago1 month ago03 mins

Nagornykh O. S., Shok N. P.
Modern History of Russia, vol. 14, no. 1, 2024, pp. 144–159.
As a rule, the epidemics that took place on the Russian territory in the first quarter of the 20th century were a part of the world epidemics that covered significant territories. Based on the materials of local newspa pers, the reaction of the population towards current events and government actions is traced. The abundance of information and the range of periodicals which enable to trace the dynamic development of epidemics, statistics of diseases and public opinion about current events and activities is highlighted.