Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Note on the text ix
5. Glossary x
6. Preface and acknowledgements xii
7. Introduction. A ‘Ukrainian Mark Twain’ and the essence of Gulag medicine 1
8. PART I. DOCTORS INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE
9. 1 ‘They were the first’: Pioneers of the Gulag medical service 39
10. 2 ‘A nightmare parallel world’: A chekist in the clinic? 61
11. 3 ‘I Chose Kolyma’: From the medical school benches to the hospitals of the Gulag 87
12. PART II. CAREERS IN GULAG MEDICINE
13. 4 ‘Feeling my way’: Apprenticeships behind barbed wire 119
14. 5 Sisters of mercy and Komsomol girls: Nursing in the Gulag 152
15. 6 The place where Death delights in helping Life: A prisoner in the morgue 180
16. PART III. RESEARCHERS AND DREAMERS
17. 7 ‘I do not assist simulators’: A prisoner-psychiatrist challenges Gulag conventions 203
18. 8 ‘You will be singing these songs’: The radium-water spa of the zeks 227
19. Conclusion. ‘No archival materials will be gathered, and people will scatter . . .’ 254
20. Notes 267
21. Select bibliography 320
22. Index 337