Self-organization of the medical science of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s

Abstract


Scientific societies are one of the most traditional and effective forms of science self-organization. The article is devoted to the medical societies activities in Petrograd-Leningrad during the 1920s. Based on archival materials about the activities of these scientific societies, stored in the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, various directions and forms of their scientific and organizational work, administrative and economic activities, problems of relationships with authorities, as well as their socio-demographic and numerical composition. The author concluded that Petrograd-Leningrad medical scientific societies made a significant contribution to the development of medicine in the 1920s. Despite the different period of existence, the unequal number of members, they all pursued a common goal — the development of medical science and the active use of its latest achievements in public health practice.


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Elena F. Sinelnikova

St. Petersburg Branch of S.I.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: sinelnikova-elena@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9789-4538

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

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