Contents

GENERAL ASPECTS OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE

Galen and the Christians of Rome
G. Ferngren

HISTORY OF MEDICAL DISCIPLINES

On the history of surgical treatment of peptic ulcer disease
P.M. Bogopolsky, N.N. Krylov, D.A. Balalykin, O.V. Babkin, D.O. Babkin

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
V.I. Borodulin, S.P. Glyantsev, A.V. Topolyanskiy

Epidemiological component of the F.F. Erisman scientific-practical activity
N.I. Briko, T.V. Sokоlova, V.V. Klushkina

Galen and neurosurgical procedures
J. Ganz

New approach to madness: the development of the outpatient psychiatry in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and in the early 1930s
G. Dufaud

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN MEDICINE

Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky. On the 140th anniversary of his birth
A.L. Vertkin, K.A. Pashkov, A.V. Topolyanskiy

Life and socio-political views of F.F. Yanitsky (1852–1937)
O.A. Trefilova, I.A. Rozanov

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Ethics and factors of humanization in modern neurosurgery
L.B. Likhterman, B.L. Lichterman

I.P. Pavlov: Princeps physiologorum mundi and philosopher
G.H. Shingarov

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Case history in the tradition of medical education
E.E. Berger

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

SOURCE

N.I. Pirogov’s unpublished letters: the first and second letter to A.L. Obermiller (1877)
M.N. Kozovenko, S.I. Trikhina

BOOK REVIEW

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