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Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective

Comparing Professions, Practice and Gender, 1880-1960

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Editors:
  1. Susan Grant

    1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  • Collects contributions from leading specialists in political, cultural, medical and gender history

  • Constructs an inclusive picture of health care, placing Russian and the Soviet Union in an international context

  • Employs cutting-edge methodology while engaging and developing emerging scholarship

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Susan Grant
    Pages 1-28

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 255-281
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About this book

This collection compares Russian and Soviet medical workers – physicians, psychiatrists and nurses, and examines them within an international framework that challenges traditional Western conceptions of professionalism and professionalization through exploring how these ideas developed amongst medical workers in Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideology and everyday life are examined through analyses of medical practice while gender is assessed through the experience of women medical professionals and patients. Cross national and entangled history is explored through the prism of health care, with medical professionals crossing borders for a number of reasons: to promote the principles and advancements of science and medicine internationally; to serve altruistic purposes and support international health care initiatives; and to escape persecution. Chapters in this volume highlight the diversity of experiences of health care, but also draw attention to the shared concerns and issues that make science and medicine the subject of international discussion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Susan Grant

About the editor

Susan Grant is Lecturer in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is also the author of Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s (2012).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Comparing Professions, Practice and Gender, 1880-1960

  • Editors: Susan Grant

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44171-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44170-2Published: 28 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83002-5Published: 20 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44171-9Published: 20 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 281

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Science, Social History

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