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Health and welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941 : protecting the collective / by Christopher Williams
(History of medicine in context)

Publisher	Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis
Year	2018
Edition	First edition.
Authors	*Williams, Christopher author Taylor and Francis

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00064004		Taylor & Francis eBooks (電子ブック)	9780429507205

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (334 pages) : 100 illustrations
Contents	chapter Introduction / Christopher Williams chapter 1 The ‘body Russian' in Tsarist St. Petersburg / Christopher Williams chapter 2 The health of the Petrograd collective under War Communism, 1918–20 / Christopher Williams chapter 3 Health, class and the market under the NEP, 1921–27 / Christopher Williams chapter 4 Health plans, medical disorder and repression: the health of the collective in crisis, 1928–41 / Christopher Williams chapter Conclusion
Notes	In the first book to chart late Imperial and Soviet health policy and its impact on the health of the collective in Russia's former capital and second "regime" city, Christopher Williams argues that in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg radical sections of the medical profession and the Bolsheviks highlighted the local and Tsarist government's failure to protect the health of poor peasants and the working class due to conflicts over the priority and direction of health policy, budget constraints and political division amongst doctors. They sought to forge alliances to change the law on social insurance and to prioritise the health of the collective. Situating pre- and post-revolutionary health policies in the context of revolutions, civil war, market transition and Stalin's rise to power, Williams shows how attempts were made to protect the Body Russian/Soviet and to create a healthier lifestyle and environment for key members of the new Soviet state. This failed due to shortages of money, ideology and Soviet medical and cultural norms. Itresulted in ad hoc interventions into people's lives and the promotion of medical professionalization, and then the imposition of restrictions resulting from changes in the Party line. Williams shows that when the health of the collective was threatened and created medical disorder, it led to state coercion HTTP:URL=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429507205 Pub. note=Click here to view.
Subjects	LCSH:History, 20th Century LCSH:Public Health -- history All Subject Search LCSH:Public health -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Public health LCSH:Social Welfare -- history All Subject Search FREE:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security FREE:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare MESH:Public Health -- history All Subject Search MESH:History, 20th Century MESH:Social Welfare -- history All Subject Search MESH:Russia (Pre-1917) MESH:Soviet Union
Classification	LCC:RA395.R9 NLM:WA 11 GR9 DC23:362.10947/21
ID	8000060334
ISBN	9780429507205