| Contents |
Introduction: Experts, expertise, and new histories of Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey -- Toward a Soviet psychiatry : war and the organization of mental health care in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina -- Fighting plague in southeast European Russia, 1917-25 : a case study in early Soviet medicine / Dmitry Mikhel -- Foreign expertise on Russian terrain : Max Kuczynski on the Kirghiz steppe, 1923-24 / Susan Gross Solomon -- Behind the closed door : VD and medical secrecy in early Soviet medicine / Frances L. Bernstein -- Defining sexual maturity as the Soviet alternative to an age of consent / Dan Healey -- Vaccination against tuberculosis with BCG : a study of innovation in Soviet public health, 1925-41 / Michael Z. David -- Between power and experts : Soviet doctors examine Katyń / Marina Sorokina -- Medical expertise and the 1946-47 famine : the identification and treatment of a state-induced illness / Veniamin F. Zima -- "Abortion is killing us" : women's medicine and the dilemmas for postwar doctors in the Soviet Union, 1944-48 / Mie Nakachi -- The political economy of water supply under late Stalinism / Don Filtzer -- Destalinization as detoxification? : the expert debate on industrial toxins under Khrushchev / Christopher Burton -- White coats and tea with raspberry jam : caring for sick children in late Soviet Russia / Catriona Kelly. |
