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Gulag Doctors

Name: Gulag Doctors
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 44836147
Price: 40.66 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Healey Dan Healey
ISBN: 9780300277371

Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps

Healey Dan Healey

Language

English

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Libristo code: 44836147

Publishers Yale University Press, March 2024

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Libristo code: 44836147

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A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas, succumbed to exhaustion, emaciation, and illness. It seems paradoxical that any medical care was available in the camps. But it was in fact ubiquitous. By 1939 the Gulag Sanitary Department employed 10,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics-about 40 percent of whom were prisoners. Dan Healey explores the lives of the medical staff who treated inmates in the Gulag. Doctors and nurses faced extremes of repression, supply shortages, and isolation. Yet they still created hospitals, re-fed prisoners, treated diseases, and "e;saved"e; a proportion of their patients. They taught apprentices and conducted research too. This groundbreaking account offers an unprecedented view of Stalin's forced-labour camps as experienced by its medical staff.