Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective

1. Introduction
Susan Grant

Part I. Professions and Practice

2. Difficult Sciences: The Emergence and Development of Medical Specialization in Russia, 1880s–1920s
Jacqueline (Kim) Friedlander

3. Creating Cadres of Soviet Nurses, 1936–1941
Susan Grant

4. Factory Medicine in the Soviet Defense Industry During World War II
Donald Filtzer

5. A Soviet System of Professions: Psychiatry, Professional Jurisdiction, and the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, 1932–1951
Benjamin Zajicek

Part II. Gendered Health Care

6. Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis for the History of Nursing
Hafeeza Anchrum, Taryn Pochon, Julie Fairman

7. “She Has Broken Down the Barrier of Bigotry and Exclusiveness and Forced Her Way into the Profession”: Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s
Laura Kelly

8. Gender and Russian Health Care, 1880–1905: Professionalism and Practice
Michelle DenBeste

Part III. Health Care Professionals Crossing Borders

9. Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s
Susan Gross Solomon

10. Public Health Nursing Education in the Interwar Period
Jaime Lapeyre

11. Refugee Nurses in Great Britain, 1933–1945: From Place of Safety to a New Homeland
Paul Weindling

Keywords: History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Science, Social History