Making Soviet Medical History: an Article by Ilya Strashun for the 1936 Encyclopedia

Belik, Kseniya

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Making Soviet Medical History: an Article by Ilya Strashun for the 1936 Encyclopedia

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S207987840031362-7-1

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10.18254/S207987840031362-7

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Kseniya Belik Send message

Affiliation: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Address: Russian Federation, Dolgoprudny

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Volume 15 Issue 4 (138)

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The “History of Medicine” as an independent scientific discipline took shape in the Soviet period and became an autonomous research space. The main and first text describing the disciplinary rationale and main scientific principles of medical history was the encyclopedic article “Medicine”. It was written by Ilya Strashun for the first edition of the Great Medical Encyclopedia and was published in 1936 in volume 17. This text was the result of a Soviet experiment in disciplinary construction in which medicine was articulated in a new system of coordinates. In this article, drawing on the methods of discourse analysis proposed by Michel Foucault and Umberto Eco, the author attempts to examine the history of the text and to relate it to pre-existing narratives on medical history. The author analyses ways of adapting the existing practices of describing the history of medicine to the new Soviet language. Particular Attention is paid to the identification of the discourse’s types included in the text of the article and the emergence among them of discursive elements unconventional for the Soviet text. The concluding section there is a reference to the role of historical science in the creation of the encyclopedic text and the cumulative status of the history of medicine. The I. D. Strashun's role in establishing a new discourse order and the systematization of the accumulated knowledge of medical history is revealed.

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history of medicine, Ilya Strashun, Great Medical Encyclopedia, disciplinary history, history of ideas, discourse analysis, Soviet history

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GOST	Belik K. Making Soviet Medical History: an Article by Ilya Strashun for the 1936 Encyclopedia // ISTORIYA. – 2024. – V. 15. – Issue 4 (138). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840031362-7-1/. DOI: 10.18254/S207987840031362-7
MLA	Belik, Kseniya "Making Soviet Medical History: an Article by Ilya Strashun for the 1936 Encyclopedia." ISTORIYA. 15.4 (138) (2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840031362-7
APA	Belik K. (2024). Making Soviet Medical History: an Article by Ilya Strashun for the 1936 Encyclopedia. ISTORIYA. vol. 15, no. 4 (138) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840031362-7

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