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Boorse and Galen: an overlooked connection

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v7.1.2021.12l D.A. Balalykin1  1Non-commercial charitable organization The Classical Studies Foundation 2 Gamsonovsky Pereulok, Moscow 115191, Russia This article examines the important issue of how the philosophy and history of medicine influence each other and the need to take account of this when considering fundamental concepts of ontological significance to medical science. The author analyses …

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Artificial morality for artificial intelligence

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.4.2019.01a Nikolay N. Krylov1, Yevgeniya L. Panova1Aftandil V. Alekberzade11FSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)2 Bolshaya Pirogovskaya St., building 4, Moscow 119991, Russia To unify the solution to the problems faced by the creators of algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI) for making moral decisions, both multifarious variants of speculative experiments and the …

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On the history of Caspar Bauhin’s discovery of the ileocecal valve

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.4.2019.02b Sergey A. Kutia1,Natalia G. Nikolaeva2,Gennady A. Moroz1,Igor A. Verchenko11V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University4 Prospekt Vernadskogo, Simferopol 295007, Russia2Kazan State Medical University49 Butlerova St., Kazan 420012, Russia The ileocecal valve is also known as Bauhin’s valve, after the Swiss scientist Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624), who discovered it in 1579. This paper aims to reconstruct the …

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On the history of the formation of the Nizhny Novgorod militia: information on officers’ illnesses in September-December 1812

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.4.2019.03c Dmitry A. Nikolaev1, Leonid N. Akimov2,Ekaterina A. Akimova31National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod23 Prospekt Gagarina, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia2Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod (LUNN)31a Minina St., Nizhny Novgorod 603155, Russia3Nizhny Novgorod Institute of management ‒ branch of RANEPA46 Prospekt Gagarina, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia When Napoleon invaded the Russian Empire, various Russian …

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Medical education at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.4.2019.04d Tatiana S. Sorokina1 1Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)6 Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow 117198, Russia The Peoples’ Friendship University (UDN) was established in February 1960 for the purpose of training native professionals for the newly independent developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America liberated from colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. UDN became …

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Inhibition – an attributive function of the nervous system: from Hippocrates to I.M. Sechenov

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.4.2019.05e Georgy Kh. Shingarov1, Irina G. Tatarovskaya21Modern University for the Humanities32 Nizhegorodskaya St., building 4, Moscow 109029, Russia2Institute for African Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences30/1 Spiridonovka St., Moscow 123001, Russia The article demonstrates that inhibition is an attributive function of the nervous system. It notes that the idea of inhibition was first put forward …

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The work of the Transbaikal Provincial Department of Health on health education in 1923–1926

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.3.2019.01a Antonina I. Moroz1,Veronika V. Moroz2,1Chita Institute (branch) of FSBEI HE “Baikal State University”Anohina St., 56, Chita 672000, Transbaikal territory, Russia2CFSBEI HE “Chita State Medical Academy” of the Russian Federation Ministry of HealthGorkogo St., 39A, Chita 672090, Transbaikal territory, Russia The paper discusses the relatively understudied work of the Transbaikal Provincial Department of Health …

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Surgical clinics in the USA in the 1920s through the eyes of S.S. Yudin

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.3.2019.02b Surgical clinics in the USA in the 1920s through the eyes of S.S. YudinNikolay N. Krylov1,Olga A. Trefilova1,Aftandil V. Alekberzade11FSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia S.S. Yudin used part of his prize won in 1926 for his monograph on spinal anaesthesia, which …

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A page in the history of Soviet clinical medicine: the establishment of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the formalisation of the therapeutic elite (1944–1948)

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.3.2019.03c Vladimir I. Borodulin1,Sergey P. Glyantsev1,2,Anna A. Stochik11FSSBI “N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health”12 Vorontsovo Pole St., building 1, Moscow 105064, Russia2A.N. Bakulev National Medical Research Center of Cardiovascular Surgery8 Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow 117931, Russia The article considers the issues of the formation of the therapeutic elite and its role in the …

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The history of childbirth as the subject of social and humanitarian studies in Russia*

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v6.3.2019.04d Natalia A. Mitsyuk1,Natalya L. Pushkareva2,Anna V. Belova31FSBEI HE SSMU MOH Russia28 Krupskoy St., Smolensk 214019, Russia2IEA RAS MOH Russia32a Leninsky ave., Moscow 119334, Russia3FSBEI HE TSU MES Russia33 Zhelyabov St., Tver 170100, Russia The purpose of this article is an interdisciplinary comparative historical analysis of historical, ethnographic and sociological studies of maternity culture …

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