Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective

Introduction.- Part 1: Professions and Practice.- Chapter 1. Difficult Sciences: The Emergance and Development of Medical Specialization in Russia, 1880s-1920s; Kim Friedlander.- Chapter 2. Creating Cadres of Soviet Nurses, 1936-1941; Susan Grant.- Chapter 3. Factory Medicine in Soviet Defense Industry during World War II; Donald Filtzer.- Chapter 4. A Soviet System of Professions: Psychiatry, Professional Jurisdiction, and the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, 1932-1951; Benjamin Zajicek.- Part 2: Gendered Health Care.- Chapter 5. Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis for the History of Nursing; Hafeeza Anchrum, Taryn Pochon, and Julie Fairman.- Chapter 6. "She has broken down the barrier of bigotry and exclusiveness and forced her way into the profession": Irish Women in the Medical Profession, c.1880s-1920s; Laura Kelly.- Chapter 7 Gender and Russian Health Care, 1880-1905: Professionalism and Practice; Michelle DenBeste.- Part 3: Health Care Professionals Crossing Borders.- Chapter 8 Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s; Susan Gross Solomon.- Chapter 9 Public Health Nursing Education in the Interwar Periodl; Jaime Lapeyre.- Chapter 10. Refugee Nurses in Great Britain, 1933-1945: From Place of Safety to a New Homeland; Paul Weindling 

Susan Grant is Lecturer in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is also the author of Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s (2012).