title: Medical Geography and Civil Society in the Russian Empire
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metadata.value: Martin, Alexander M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:44:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:44:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Martin A. M. Medical Geography and Civil Society in the Russian Empire. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 3, рp. 1017–1027. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.320
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.320
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38707
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the intellectual construction of empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one of
  the principal building blocks was medical geography. A discipline located at the boundary of
  medicine, ethnography, sociology, and geography, medical geography devoted itself to understanding
  the social and environmental factors that neo-Hippocratic medicine thought determined
  public health. Thanks to A History of Medicine and Medical Geography in the Russian
  Empire, co-written by a team of researchers under the direction of E. Vishlenkova and A. Renner,
  there exists for the first time a study of the role played by medical geography in the development
  of the Russian Empire. The book begins by discussing what it calls the infrastructure
  of Russian medico-geographic research: the top-level medical agencies, the system of Baltic
  maritime quarantines, the training and career paths of physicians, and the development of
  medical associations. Then it examines the findings of medico-geographic researchers, discussing
  the climate theories of early modern European medical thinkers and the development
  in Russia of the three principal forms of medico-geographic writing — statistics, mapmaking,
  and narrative “medico-topographical descriptions”. The final section offers a series of case studies from spaces as diverse as Lithuania, the Kazakh steppe, the Arctic shipping route, and
  global voyages of the vessels of the imperial Russian navy. Systematically placing Russia in
  the comparative framework of European empires and alternating in its perspective between
  St Petersburg and distant frontiers, the book explores how medical geography and its practitioners
  connected Russia with Europe and helped simultaneously to form the imperial state,
  the Russian nation, and a nascent civil society.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant No. 21-78-10052 “From the Cadiz сonstitution to the
  Petersburg uprising: Transfer of discourses, ideas, emotions in the Biedermeier era” of the Russian Science
  Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medical geography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: civil society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medical profession
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frontiers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: statistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mapmaking
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public health
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Medical Geography and Civil Society in the Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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