“Another Vishnevsky”: from the mystery of the name of the Donetsk municipal hospital to a forgotten page in medical instrumentation

  • Authors: Vladzymyrskyy A.V.1,2
  • Affiliations:
    1. Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Health Care Department, Moscow, Russian Federation
    2. S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, RAS
  • Issue: No 2 (2024)
  • Section: История медицины
  • URL: http://bulleten-nriph.ru/journal/article/view/2762
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Abstract


The main stages of the scientific biography of the doctor, scientist and inventor, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology of the faculty of advanced training of doctors of the Donetsk State Medical Institute named after. A.M. Gorky Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky. Based on archival materials, the inventive activity for the creation of an original photometric hysterograph, a complex device “Physiograph-1” and other devices was studied. The development of methods for monitoring the condition of patients, scientific and social activities of A.A. Vishnevsky during his work in Donetsk (1964—1969) described.


About the authors

Anton V. Vladzymyrskyy

Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Health Care Department, Moscow, Russian Federation; S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: vladzimirskijav@zdrav.mos.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2990-7736

Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation

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