T.I. Surovtseva The forming of the “Society of competition of medical and physics sciences” (1804) – the first scientific medical society, became an important step in the development of natural science in the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University. The articles of…

G.B. Ferngren Organized care for the poor was not known in the civil charity that existed in the classical culture of Greece and Rome. In its framework, aid was distributed by rich philanthropists among all citizens, regardless of their social status or…

P.E. Ratmanov The article summarizes the approaches of Western historians of medicine to the typology of the Western medical tradition based on kinds of medicine”: bedside, library, hospital, laboratory and public. Keywords: Western medical tradition, kinds of medicine, typology of medicine, Western…

C. Byk The variety of European ethical and legal approaches towards the artificial insemination is also a subject for debates on the implementation of medical techniques connected with the socio-legal revolution, which after almost half a century has influenced the family law….

N.P. Shok One of the topical issues in medicine remains identifying the historically proven causes of the emergence of hospital care. Historiography holds an opinion about the bloom of this socio-medical phenomenon between the IV and V centuries. At the same time…

P.I. Sidorov, V.V. Medvedeva, А.N. Davydov The etiopathogenetic basis of the social and psychic epidemics is the bio-psycho-sociospiritual factors, which define the paths of emergence and the mechanisms of progression of massively-induced neuropsychic disorders, the earliest forms of which were titled “hysterodemoniacal”:…

S.P. Glyantsev This article gives the brief overview of the history and evidence-based ascription of the “Field set of surgical instruments” made by the J. C. Schnetter (Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria), consisting of 29 instruments and dating back to the beginning of…

E.N. Shulga Eugenics represents one of the most captivating projects of improving humankind, and as a scientific branch has its own history, philosophic foundations, culture-historical prerequisites and motives. If in the early stages of history it was considered as the basis for…

М.Y. Chernichenko I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation The article investigates the problem of insufficient knowledge of the life and work of the first people’s commissar of health, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko. Documents from…