G.H. Shingarov, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Leading ResearcherModern University for Humanities, Lomonosov Moscow State University, N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, Moscow (Russian Federation) I.P. Pavlov studied and analyzed the epistemological and methodological foundations of physiology as a natural science, to which he applied the principle of unified results of scientific knowledge …

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G. Ferngren, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor This paper addresses Galen’s reputation and influence amongst Christians of his own day. Specifically, it examines the view that contemporary Christians mistrusted Galen because of his critical remarks about them. It required several centuries before his reputation among Christians began to grow. I shall argue that Galen’s estimation of …

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P.M. Bogopolsky1, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Department of Scientific Programs and Staff Training N.N. Krylov2, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Department of the Surgery MPF D.A. Balalykin2, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Department of the History of Medicine, National History and …

On the history of surgical treatment of peptic ulcer disease Read More »

V.I. Borodulin1, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor S.P. Glyantsev1,2, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor A.V. Topolyanskiy3, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor 1N.A. Semashko National Public Health Research Institute, The Federal Agency for Scientifi c Institutions, Moscow (Russian Federation); 2The National Research Institute of Public Health of Bakoulev Scientifi c Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow …

The history of the formation of Soviet cardiology as an independent scientific discipline and medical speciality, and the role of cardiac surgery in this process Read More »

N.I. Briko, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Empirical Medicine T.V. Sokоlova, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor V.V. Klushkina, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Teaching Assistant I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow …

Epidemiological component of F.F. Erisman scientific-practical activity Read More »

J. Ganz, Doctor of Philosophy, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ulverston (UK) There are two areas where Galen’s competence with neurosurgical procedures is documented. The first is his clinical work described in the De methodo medendi (Method of Medicine). He states that his writing is merely an extension and perhaps a clarification of …

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G. Dufaud, Ph.D. in History, Researcher Center for research in medicine, science, health, mental health, and society (CERMES3) National Committee for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris (France) This article explains how a marginal method for the provision of health care became public policy in Soviet Russia and shows the role of psychiatrists within the Soviet transformative …

New approach to madness: the development of the outpatient psychiatry in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and in the early 1930s Read More »

A.L. Vertkin, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Department of Therapy, Clinical Pharmacology and Ambulance K.A. Pashkov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Department of the History of Medicine A.V. Topolyanskiy, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A.I. Evdokimov, Moscow (Russian Federation) …

Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky. On the 140th anniversary of his birth Read More »

O.A. Trefilova, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor I.A. Rozanov, 6th-year student of the Medical-prophylactic Faculty I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow (Russian Federation) The article is devoted to F.F. Yanitsky, a representative of the Russian intelligentsia, a zemstvo (district) physician, privy councilor, doctor of …

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L.B. Likhterman, Doctor of Medical Scienсes, Professor, Chief Researcher B.L. Lichterman, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at the Department of the History of Medicine, National History and Culturology This study presents a brief excursion into the history of the question of ethics and morality in neurosurgery. The current contradictory situation is analyzed: a technological “explosion” …

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