Elena Vishlenkova and Andreas Renner, eds. Istoriia meditsiny i meditsinskoi geografii v Rossiiskoi imperii. Kollektivnaia monografiia. Moscow: Shiko, 2021

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Maria Pirogovskaya

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Westernized medicine was imported into the Russian Empire primarily for the needs of the state, thereby informing early modern structures of discipline and monitoring of an imperial body. But how specifically was this imperial body imagined, constructed, and approached? How did Russian physicians in the state service view the imperial territory? Why were the streets of the capital cities, the remote uezds,1 or frontier zones of colonial interest and expansion described in detail? These were the starting points for the Russian-German research project “On Land and Sea: Medical Geography in the Russian Empire (1770–1870),” led by Elena Vishlenkova and Andreas Renner, which resulted in this monograph.


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Russian Empire, Medical Geography, Bureaucracy, Medical Topography, Nineteenth Century


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Pirogovskaya, M. (2025). Elena Vishlenkova and Andreas Renner, eds. Istoriia meditsiny i meditsinskoi geografii v Rossiiskoi imperii. Kollektivnaia monografiia. Moscow: Shiko, 2021. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 16(3), 147–150. Retrieved from https://soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/1566
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