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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor those with an interest in Soviet medical care or a general interest in the history of pharmaceuticals... this book is crucial. Conroy's meticulous reasearch and skillful use of archival material, interviews, and Soviet and western journals make for a very rich text.... It is certainly a must read for those interested in the history of Soviet medical care. -- Jeffrey Jones * Slavic Review, Summer 2010 *
It offers fascinating glimpses from an unusual angle of how ordinary Soviets survived the war. . . . Her scholarship has moved beyond a straightforward economic history of the pharmaceutical industry to the experience of ordinary Soviet citizens during the war and, specifically, to the use of alternative remedies. The book is therefore a mix of economic history and empirical work on everyday experience. * The Russian Review, Winter 2009 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Figures and Tables Part 2 Preface Part 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Part 5 I: On the Eve: 1938 Chapter 6 Sickness in Soviet Health Care Part 7 II: The First Phase of World War II: 1939 to June 22, 1941 Chapter 8 War! Medical Hardware Chapter 9 Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals during the First Two Years of World War II Chapter 10 At the Apteka during the First Two Years of World War II Chapter 11 Pharmacologists Investigate Narodnaia Meditsina and Phages during the First Two Years of World War II Part 12 III: The Great Patriotic War: June 22, 1941-1945 Chapter 13 Production of Pharmaceuticals during the First Two Years of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1943 Chapter 14 Points of Light? Production and Foreign Assistance, 1943-1945 Chapter 15 At the Apteka during the Great Patriotic War Chapter 16 Narodnaia Meditsina during the Great Patriotic War Chapter 17 Reforming the Pharmacy Sector: Ideas from Below and Their Fate Part 18 Bibliography Part 19 Index
