History of Medicine

History

An Open Access Journal

Vol.2. No.3. 2015

Case history in the traditions of medical education

E.E. Berger, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senion Researcher, Associate Professor The article examines the formation of medical narratives and the possibilities of using these types of sources in historical and medical history research. The tradition of describing individual cases of diseases originated in ancient Greece – a classic example of this is the Epidemic treatise …

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M.P. Konchalovsky (1875–1942): pages of the biography on materials of personal archive in the Museum of the History of Medicine at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

O.B. Bokareva, Chief keeper of funds of the Museum of the History of Medicine I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow (Russian Federation) The article draws on material from M.P. Konchalovsky’s personal archive, donated in 1991 as a gift by Konchalovsky’s grandson to the Museum of …

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N.I. Pirogov̓s unpublished letters: the first and second letter to A.L. Obermiller (1877)

M.N. Kozovenko, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at the Department of the History of Medicine, National History and Culturology S.I. Trikhina, External Doctoral Candidate at the Department of the History of Medicine, National History and Culturology I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow (Russian Federation) Eleven …

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Medicine in Iran: profession, practice, and politics, 1800–1925. Review

This review was written by B.L. Lichterman, doctor of medical sciences, professor of medical history, Russian history, and culturology at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz. Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice, and Politics, 1800‒1925. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 254 p. Full text …

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