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Communicable Disease, Anti-epidemic Policies, and the Role of Medical Professionals in Russia, 1725-62*

Communicable Disease, Anti-epidemic Policies, and the Role of Medical Professionals in Russia,... The impact of communicable disease on Russian society in the eighteenth century is a complex subject which previous historiography has largely neglected. Disastrous epidemics such as the plague of 1770-72 have received some attention from specialists, but their work has suffered from a crude conceptual framework and their findings have scarcely altered the general presentation of Russian history. How a society copes with infectious disease, however, may reveal fundamental social relations, demographic trends, economic conditions, popular attitudes, and other problems. Eighteenth- century Russia provides rich prospects for the study of such issues. The rapid formation of a professional medical corps, together with more broadly conceived and empirically oriented state policies of public health, reflected a new governmental outlook that entailed the collection of new kinds of data concerning communicable disease and the institutional reactions to it. Historians can use these data to study a variety of questions such as the incidence of various diseases, how epidemics affected institutions and pol- icies, and how medical professionals diagnosed and treated different afflic- tions. The following brief survey reviews some of the scholarship and docu- ments for the mid-eighteenth century, indicates continuities with the Petrine and Catherinian eras, and examines at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Communicable Disease, Anti-epidemic Policies, and the Role of Medical Professionals in Russia, 1725-62*

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 12 (1): 16 – Jan 1, 1978

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023978X00439b
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Abstract

The impact of communicable disease on Russian society in the eighteenth century is a complex subject which previous historiography has largely neglected. Disastrous epidemics such as the plague of 1770-72 have received some attention from specialists, but their work has suffered from a crude conceptual framework and their findings have scarcely altered the general presentation of Russian history. How a society copes with infectious disease, however, may reveal fundamental social relations, demographic trends, economic conditions, popular attitudes, and other problems. Eighteenth- century Russia provides rich prospects for the study of such issues. The rapid formation of a professional medical corps, together with more broadly conceived and empirically oriented state policies of public health, reflected a new governmental outlook that entailed the collection of new kinds of data concerning communicable disease and the institutional reactions to it. Historians can use these data to study a variety of questions such as the incidence of various diseases, how epidemics affected institutions and pol- icies, and how medical professionals diagnosed and treated different afflic- tions. The following brief survey reviews some of the scholarship and docu- ments for the mid-eighteenth century, indicates continuities with the Petrine and Catherinian eras, and examines at

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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