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Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian

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    A Paperback / softback by Christian Emden, David Midgley, Julia Sutton-Mattocks

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      Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
      Publication Date: 26/09/2023
      ISBN13: 9781800792937, 978-1800792937
      ISBN10: 180079293X

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      Book Synopsis

      Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

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