The research project "On Land and Sea: Medical Geography in the Russian Empire, 1770-1870" aimed to study the history of circulation and production of medical-geographical knowledge and the history of health care in the Russian Empire in transnational and local perspectives. The project participants focused their research on 1) the infrastructure of medical activity; 2) medical and geographic ideas and forms of their presentation; and 3) the participation of medicine in the ordering, stabilization, and conceptualization of the empire and the space beyond its frontiers.
The project was conducted over three years (2019-2021). It was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF) and led by Professors Elena Vishlenkova (NRU HSE, Moscow) and Andreas Renner (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich).
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Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the seminar of the Russian Museum of Medicine
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The Journal of European Education published an article by S.N. Zatravkin and E.A. Vishlenkova "A Ghost Textbook on the History of Medicine: A Case Study of the Legacy of a Stalinist Scholarly Canon"
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The article "The Health of Population and Social Stratification in N.A. Semashko’s Publicistic Writing (1918–1928)" by V.A. Yakovenko was published
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Vladislav Yakovenko and Pavel Vasiliev organized a student project to work with the medical archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg
The project member Elena Lisitsyna took part in the conference "Science, Politics and Piety: New Research on Reciprocal Relations between
Halle and Russia in the Long Eighteenth Century", which was held on-line on October 8–9 by Frankesche Stiftungen in Halle (Saale), Germany
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Elena Vishlenkova and Sergey Zatravkin published an article "Quarantines and Sanitary Conventions of Russia with the Northern Maritime Powers (first third of the 19th century)"
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A new article by the project participant Elena Lisitsyna provides a case study on the production of knowledge about crude oil as a medical resource by a Prussian physician J.J. Lerche in the18th-century Russian Empire
Russian Museum of Medicine invites to a meeting of the regular seminar "Publish or Perish"