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.
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