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Title Doing medicine together : Germany and Russia between the wars / edited by Susan Gross Solomon
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 533 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series German and European studies
German and European studies.
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Germany, Russia, and Medical Cooperation between the Wars -- Part One: 'Choosing' Scientific Friends -- 1 German Overtures to Russia, 1919�1925: Between Racial Expansion and National Coexistence -- 2 Partners of Choice / Faute de Mieux? Russians and Germans at the 200th Anniversary of the Academy of Sciences, 1925 -- 3 Leftists versus Nationalists in Soviet�Weimar Cultural Diplomacy: Showcases, Fronts, and Boomerangs -- Part Two: Scientific Entrepreneurs across Borders
4 How to Win Friends and Influence People: Heinz Zeiss, Boundary Objects, and the Pursuit of Cross-National Scientific Collaboration in Microbiology5 'Creating Confidence': Heinz Zeiss as a Traveller in the Soviet Union, 1921�1932 -- 6 Infertile Soil: Heinz Zeiss and the Import of Medical Geography to Russia, 1922�1930 -- 7 The Scientist as Lobbyist: Heinz Zeiss and Auslandsdeutschtum -- Part Three: Bilateralism and Internationalism -- 8 Castor and Pollux in Brain Research: The Berlin and the Moscow Brain Research Institutes
9 Eugenics, Rassenhygiene, and Human Genetics in the Late 1930s: The Case of the Seventh International Genetics CongressPart Four: Scientific Migration to 'the Other' -- 10 Home Away from Home: The Berlin Neuroanatomist Louis Jacobsohn-Lask in Russia -- 11 Crossing Over: The Emigration of German-Jewish Physicians to the Soviet Union after 1933 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary Analyzes aspects of the German-Russian collaboration often overlooked by students of cross-national science, including the choice of 'friends' across borders, the activities of scientific entrepreneurs, the tensions between bi-lateral and international science, and the migration of scientists. Of the many interwar connections between Germany and Russia, one of the most unusual - and least explored - is medicine and public health. Between 1922 and 1932, with high-level political support and government funding, Soviet and German physicians and public health specialists collaborated in joint research expeditions, published joint articles, launched a bi-lingual journal, and established joint research institutions. Surprisingly, students of Soviet-German relations have all but ignored this medical collaboration; while historians of science have treated it as political history, an exercise in cultural diplomacy designed to mitigate the impact of the post-war exclusion of both nations from the international science. The contributors to this volume, who come from Germany, Russia, Britain, the United States and Canada, depart from the traditional approach to the subject. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, the authors move beyond politics to examine the impact of this collaboration on scientific activity
Contributors analyze aspects of the German-Russian collaboration often overlooked by students of cross-national science, including the choice of 'friends' across borders, the activities of scientific entrepreneurs, the tensions between bi-lateral and international science, and the migration of scientists. Treating Soviet-German medical relations as an instance of trans-national science lays bare its unique features. Ultimately, "Doing Medicine Together" raises new and important questions about the vaunted 'special' relation between Soviet Russia and Weimar Germany
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Medicine -- Research -- International cooperation
Medicine -- Research -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Research -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Research -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Research -- Government policy -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
Biomedical Research -- history
History, 20th Century
International Cooperation -- history
Public Policy
MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Medicine -- Research
Medicine -- Research -- Government policy
Medicine -- Research -- International cooperation
Medizin
Forschung
Wissenschaftliche Kooperation
SUBJECT Germany https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858
USSR https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014586
Subject Germany
Soviet Union
Deutschland
Sowjetunion
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Solomon, Susan Gross
LC no. 2007274747
ISBN 9781442674004
1442674008
1281992100
9781281992109
9786611992101
6611992103