{"product_id":"the-russian-medical-humanities-9781498592154","title":"The Russian Medical Humanities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in English, The Russian Medical Humanities: Past and Present argues that the medical humanities is a vibrant and emerging field in Post-Soviet Russia. In a unique collaboration that brings together diverse experts from both Russia and America, this volume showcases the Russian medical humanities as an interdisciplinary project that combines insights from philosophy, bioethics, anthropology, history, and literature in order to provide more compassionate medical care to patients in the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume explore past and present humanistic trends in Russian medical training, as well as examine how Russian authors and cultural figures, some physician-writers, some without professional background in medicine of any kind, have positioned healthy and ailing bodies in their creative work. This volume's contributors, who range from literary scholars, educators, translators and poets to medical historians, librarians, museum curators, and soc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKonstantin Starikov and Melissa L. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Physicians’ Charity as a Lynchpin in Forming Medical Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvgeniya L. Panova and Maria S. Tutorskaya\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The History of the Formation and Maintenance of the Osteological Collections in Russia in the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e- 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Centuries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria P. Kuzybaeva\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Doctor as a Humanist: An International, Interdisciplinary, and Intergenerational Project at Sechenov University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan McFarland and Irina Markovina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Chekhov in North American Medical Schools: Surveying the pre-COVID Attitudes of Slavic Scholars and their Role in Medical Humanities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKonstantin Starikov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Pauline Tarnowsky and the Russian Influence on Cesare Lombroso’s Criminal Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick H. White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Narrative Medicine in Chekhov and Bulgakov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa L. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Social Cataclysm through the Doctor's Eyes: Vikentii Veresaev’s The Deadlock As Diagnostic Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalia Vygovskaia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Wards of the State: Russian Medical Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela Brintlinger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Still Alice, Always Elena: Dementia as A World of Possibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJehanne Gheith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040862306647,"sku":"9781498592154","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-russian-medical-humanities-9781498592154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}