НОВАЯ КНИГА ПО ИСТОРИИ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ И ПРОВИНЦИАЛЬНОЙ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ИНТЕЛЛИГЕНЦИИ
A NEW BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF HEALTH CARE AND THE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL INTELLIGENTSIA

Summary/Abstract: The publication is a review of the monograph authored by the well-known historian and regional scholar K. E. Baldin (Ivanovo State University). The book under consideration is a comprehensive study devoted to the history of factory, urban, zemstvo, private medicine in a large industrial center — the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk in the second half of the XIX — early XX centuries. In addition, the author used archival sources, which have not yet been introduced into scholarly discourse. The author pays special attention to the activities of specialists who worked during this period in various medical institutions of the city — factory, zemstvo, city and other doctors. The author, on the basis of various and trustworthy sources, studied the material and official position of the medical intelligentsia, the activities of some of its outstanding representatives. The reviewed work is distinguished by its relevance, because in the context of the recently ended COVID-19 pandemic, the experience of combating epidemics accumulated in Russia more than a century ago is very important. The new monograph by K. E. Baldin can be used both in further scientific research and in educational work with students.

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