DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.21n Dmitry A. Balalykin I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Periodization of the history of a research object serves not only as a general guide to a researcher, but also reflects his methodology. The author discusses the main methodological issues in the periodization of medical history in …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.22u Vladimir I. BorodulinN.A. Semashko National Public Health Research Institute, Federal Agency of Scientific Organization The article discusses the criteria that should be used by researchers who include individuals among the ranks of historically significant people and dedicate biographical articles to them in encyclopedias, monographs and doctoral research. It is shown that in the history …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.23m Athina MalapaniNational and Capodistrian University of Athens The article provides an overview of Galen’s works on pharmacology taking into consideration the way of thinking and the general attitude towards medicine in the ancient era. Pharmacology was considered one of the three sectors of the medical science (surgery and dietology were the other two). The …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.24d Nikita Yu. Pivovarov1, Nataliya P. Shok2 1The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History, Moscow2I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Using an analysis of archival materials about academic I.P. Pavlov, the authors of the article propose that the historical and biographical information about this leading scientist can …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.25f V.V. Gonchar Postgraduate Institute for Public Health Worhers, the Ministry of Health of the Khabarovsk region The article raises issues about the organization, accessibility and quality of mass prosthetic dental care in the USSR in the second half of the 20th century. The author focuses on the medical, social and economic problems that arose in …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.26z M.N. KozovenkoI.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation In medical history literature, including educational literature, one can find opposing views on the world’s first ministry of health: some authors believe that this was the Main Directorate for State Health Care (MDSHC, 1916-1917), while others consider it …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.27p Inna V. Pchelina1,2, Yulia I. Aseeva11 The Far Eastern State Medical University2 The Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation The article is based on a variety of sources, including archival sources, and presents an academic biography of doctor of medical sciences, Professor E.I. Kropacheva (1926–2013), one of …

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DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.3.2016.28s Konstantin K. Vasylyev1, Yuriy K. Vasylyev21 Odessa National Medical University2 Sumy State UniversityThe article discusses the activities of the Ukrainian Scientific Society of Medical Historians in the Soviet (1959-1991) and post-Soviet (from 1991) periods. The authors emphasize its connection with the All-Union Scientific Medical History Society, the creation of which in 1946 provided for …

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