Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia : Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914

ISBN-13: 9780415547949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Henze Charlotte

Opis

This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic & political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera & the politics of public health policy, contributing to current debates about how far & how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.

Recenzje

"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia." - Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011

Spis treści

1. Cholera in Russia  2. Saratov on the Eve of the Epidemic  3. Cholera in Saratov, 1892  4. Sanitised Politics and the Politics of Medicine  5. The Revival of Cholera: 1904-1914  Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire

O autorze

Charlotte E. Henze completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is currently teaching History and Russian in Zurich, Switzerland.