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The Gulag Doctors
Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions
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Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics, and Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. He is professor emeritus of modern Russian history at the University of Oxford.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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Note on the text
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Glossary
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Preface and acknowledgements
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Introduction. A ‘Ukrainian Mark Twain’ and the essence of Gulag medicine
1 - PART I. DOCTORS INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE
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1 ‘They were the first’: Pioneers of the Gulag medical service
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2 ‘A nightmare parallel world’: A chekist in the clinic?
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3 ‘I Chose Kolyma’: From the medical school benches to the hospitals of the Gulag
87 - PART II. CAREERS IN GULAG MEDICINE
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4 ‘Feeling my way’: Apprenticeships behind barbed wire
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5 Sisters of mercy and Komsomol girls: Nursing in the Gulag
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6 The place where Death delights in helping Life: A prisoner in the morgue
180 - PART III. RESEARCHERS AND DREAMERS
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7 ‘I do not assist simulators’: A prisoner-psychiatrist challenges Gulag conventions
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8 ‘You will be singing these songs’: The radium-water spa of the zeks
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Conclusion. ‘No archival materials will be gathered, and people will scatter . . .’
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Notes
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Select bibliography
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Index
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March 26, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780300277371
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