CONTENTS

HISTORY OF MEDICAL DISCIPLINES

On some controversial issues concerning the interrelation of cardiology and cardiac surgery
P.M. Bogopolsky, D.A. Balalykin

The lost page of the history of the USSR cardiology: Moscow professors Ya.G. Etinger (1887–1951) and V.E. Nezlin (1894–1975)
V.I. Borodulin, S.P. Glyantsev, A.V. Topolyanskiy

HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE

“Counting on the ‘universality’ of the surgeon is less and less justified”: A.N. Bakulev’s letter to N.S. Khrushchev. September 1955
N.Yu. Pivovarov

“Physiological collectivism”: the origins of the Institute of Blood Transfusion’s ideas and their practical realization
M.S. Sergeeva

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

The distant echo of Aristotle in bioethics today – and how to reduce the Noise

C. Delkeskamp-Hayes

Aristotle’s ethics and politics: reflections on bioethics and the contemporary state
A. Iltis

Galen’s terminology: the philosophical and symbolic meaning of “nerve”
A.P. Shcheglov

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN MEDICINE

On the biography of Professor E.A. Uspensky (1901–1977)
K.K. Vasylyev, Yu.K. Vasylyev

Pages from the biography of Professor L.Z. Morokhovets (1848–1919)
M.A. Morokhovets

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The Western concept of medical professionalism in the Russian realities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

P.E. Ratmanov