Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia : Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914


Charlotte E. Henze
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2010.
Omfang
1 online resource (244 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Conventions and abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Cholera in Russia; 2 Saratov on the eve of the epidemic; 3 Cholera in Saratov, 1892; 4 Sanitised politics and the politics of medicine; 5 The revival of cholera: 1904-1910; Conclusion: Saratov, cholera and the empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the Volga, in particular contrasting the outbreak of 1892 - widely regarded at the time as a national fiasco and a transformative episode for the Russian Empire - with the cholera epidemics of 1904-1910 when - despite completely new scientific discoveries and administrative arrangements - Russia suffere
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Medical care - History - Russia (Federation) - Saratov
Medical policy - History - Saratov - Russia (Federation)
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Bacterial Infections
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