The gulag doctors : life, death and medicine in Stalin's labour camps
INTRODUCTION A 'Ukrainian Mark Twain' and the essence of Gulag medicine -- PART I DOCTORS INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE -- 1 'THEY WERE THE FIRST': Pioneers of the Gulag medical service -- 2 'A NIGHTMARE PARALLEL WORLD': A chekist in the clinic? -- 3 'I CHOSE KOLYMA'...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Haven : Yale University Press,
2024
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| Schlagworte: | Prison physicians Forced labor Internment camps |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | INTRODUCTION A 'Ukrainian Mark Twain' and the essence of Gulag medicine -- PART I DOCTORS INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE -- 1 'THEY WERE THE FIRST': Pioneers of the Gulag medical service -- 2 'A NIGHTMARE PARALLEL WORLD': A chekist in the clinic? -- 3 'I CHOSE KOLYMA': From the medical school benches to the hospitals of the Gulag -- PART II CAREERS IN GULAG MEDICINE -- 4 'FEELING MY WAY': Apprenticeships behind barbed wire -- 5 SISTERS OF MERCY AND KOMSOMOL GIRLS: Nursing in the Gulag -- 6 THE PLACE WHERE DEATH DELIGHTS IN HELPING LIFE: A prisoner in the morgue -- PART III RESEARCHERS AND DREAMERS -- 7 'I DO NOT ASSIST SIMULATORS': A prisoner-psychiatrist challenges Gulag conventions -- 8 'YOU WILL BE SINGING THESE SONGS': The radium-water spa of the zeks -- CONCLUSION 'No archival materials will be gathered, and people will scatter . . .' |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780300277371 0300277377 9780300187137 0300187130 |