1st Edition
Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914
By Charlotte E. Henze
Copyright 2011
248 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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: 1904-1914 Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire
Biography
Charlotte E. Henze completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is currently teaching History and Russian in Zurich, Switzerland.
"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia." - Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011
