doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32478 Nikolay A. Kuznetsov This article reviews the main approaches to the interpretation of the term “risk”, which has acquired the status of a general scientific and widely interpreted concept. The unresolved issues of surgical risk terminology make it extremely difficult…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32479 Sergey D. Batoev The formation of the health care system in Transbaikal after the revolution of 1917–1918 had a number of essential features that will be covered in this paper. In 1919, the organization of medical care in Transbaikal retained…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32480 Evgeny V. Arsentyev, Vladimir A. Reshetnikov The article deals with the main turning points in the life and work of N.A. Semashko, the first People’s Commissar of Health of the RSFSR, from 1920 to 1925. The authors of the article…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32481 Vladimir D. Elkin, Tatiana G. Sedova Syphilis is one of the most common and significant diseases among sexually transmitted infections. Despite prolonged study of the disease, a number of questions concerning its pathogenesis, particular features of its clinical progression and…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32482 Igor V. Karpenko, Maria S. Sergeeva, Viktor G. Belych Using materials from the archives of the Russian Red Cross Society (RRCS) and the official Vedomosti Krasnogo Kresta (Red Cross Gazette) periodical for 1914–1917, it is shown that international charity activity…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32483 Aleksandra A. Yaroshenko, Nataliya P. Shok The lessons learned from the last wars of the second half of the 19th to early 20th centuries influenced the organization of the troop command and control. The latest inventions, mass outbreaks of infectious…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32484 Dmitry A. Balalykin The writings of Galen are an important source of information about Erasistratus. A comprehensive analysis of this source material provides an idea of Erasistratus’s and his followers’ approaches to solving practical problems of clinical medicine. The article’s…

doi: 10.3897/hmj.5.3.32485 Ka-wai Fan This article examines the anti-schistosomiasis campaign of the 1950–1960s from a new perspective, based on three historical sources from the central and local governments: the People’s Daily, Xuefangshi (anti-schistosomiasis records) and the learning documents from a brigade of…