Department of the History of Medicine. Department of History of Medicine and Social Sciences and Humanities
Institutionally, the modern Department of the History of Medicine and Social Sciences and Humanities was preceded by the Department of Social Sciences, National History, Political Science, Economic Theory, History of Medicine and Jurisprudence.
The modern department was reorganized in 2014 and expresses the humanitarian profile of the university, working at all faculties of the Russian National Research Medical University named after I. N.I. Pirogov as the base department of the Faculty of Medicine. The teaching staff of the department reads courses in humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines provided by the state standard: the history of the Fatherland, cultural studies, economic theory, sociology, the history of medicine, the foundations of civil society and the state. The department attracts teachers from leading Moscow universities, such as Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, MGIMO, RAGS, University of Foreign Languages named after Maurice Teresa, academic institutes of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and others, which is due to the profile of the department, the involvement of leading specialists in non-core universities. This allows us to carry out joint research work at the proper level.
The Department of Social Sciences was created at the 2nd MGMI in 1937. One of the first heads of the department was Professor G.A. Deborin. The department was also headed by: associate professor Dokukin V.I., associate professor Gorbunov T.S., associate professor Starodubov M.V. From 1952 to 1992 the department was headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Pervova Serafima Vasilievna, a brilliant historian, a wise leader.
From 1992 to the present, the department is headed by Honored Worker of Higher Education, Excellence in Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Professor Galina Semyonovna Kovtyukh, worthily continuing the baton of her predecessors. Possessing a broad scientific outlook, an original modern approach to teaching the humanities, Professor G.S. Kovtyukh was able to retain basic teachers and attract talented youth.
The department employs historians, philosophers, political scientists, culturologists, sociologists, lawyers and economists. The main staff of the department is made up of employees with extensive experience in the Russian National Research Medical University: Assoc. Shulgina R.M., Assoc. Konstantinov I.F., Assoc. Mordvintsev B.T., Assoc. Shapkina V.B., Assoc. Ivanova L.V., head. educational-methodical office Abrosimov M.M. and others. At the same time, the department has renewed more than 60% of the teaching staff. It was joined as experienced teachers - Assoc. Perova E.Yu., Doctor of Medical Sciences: Assoc. Fokin I.V. and Assoc. Usacheva E.L. and young people: Art. teacher Vozilova E.A., Assoc. Sterkhov D.V., Assoc. Vorobiev A.V., Candidate of Medical Sciences - Assoc. Tamarkina N.V., Assoc. Kozlova M.A., Assoc. Khreptus E.S., Assoc. Voloshun P.V., Art. teacher Likhodey E.M., teacher Semyonova T.A. and etc.
The activities of the Department of the History of Medicine and Social Sciences and Humanities are adequate to the goals of the university for the humanization of higher medical education. The main energy of the teaching staff is aimed at improving higher medical education with the allocation of a humanitarian component in it, the formation of students' political, economic and legal culture.
At the department elective courses have been tested and continue to improve: the history of Russia in world civilization, the culture of Moscow in architectural monuments, outstanding medical schools, the history and culture of Russia, the social and legal foundations of insurance medicine, the formation of market relations in healthcare, the need for state regulation of the medical services market, and others. Teachers substantively and organizationally provide training for students in the humanities.
The department is actively working at the psychological and social faculty of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov, where humanitarian courses are read in full, as well as a course in aesthetics.
The teaching staff prepared textbooks and teaching aids: "History of the Russian State" in 2 volumes (1999, 2000), "Culturology" (2004), "Honorary Citizens of Moscow" (2009), "Western European culture of the Middle Ages "(2006) and others.
Currently, the department staff is working on a whole group of training courses, textbooks and teaching aids. General scientific theme: "Man and Culture".
The high professional level of the department staff, their enthusiasm and a strong desire to do everything possible to create favorable conditions for education at a modern level, contributing to the formation of a competent specialist, a citizen of our Motherland.
October 17-20, 2018 will host the Sixth All-Russian Olympiad in the history of medicine among students of medical universities.
The organizer of the event is, with the support of the Riga Museum of the History of Medicine. P. Stradynia.
For the first time this project was successfully implemented in 2013 at the M.V. A.I. Evdokimov with the support of the Riga Museum of the History of Medicine. P. Stradynia. Already in 2014, Stavropol Medical University took over the baton of the event. Subsequently, the Olympiad was held in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Volgograd. The event has become widely known among the student youth of medical universities. More than 150 students of medical universities of Russia took part in the Olympiad, some of them, thanks to this event, began to study the history of medicine as a specialized science. Participation in the Olympiad is free. Trips to Paris and Riga became the prize for the winners and prize-winners.
We know well many commanders and presidents, but we do not know the names of many doctors whose discoveries made it possible to preserve the human race, the names of doctors to whom we owe our health. These numerous Aesculapians sowed seeds for many centuries, the fruits of which we still collect today.
The reader will get acquainted with the great doctors, with the history of their discoveries and the role they played in the formation of medical science. Some of them gave their lives to save other lives, experiencing the causative agents of deadly diseases. "Shining on others, I burn" - these words the famous Dutch physician Van Tulip suggested making the motto of selfless healers, and a burning candle - their coat of arms, a symbol. Reflecting on their activities, it is worth recalling the words of the famous physiologist Claude Bernard: "Great people can be compared to torches that flare up from time to time to direct the course of science." Do not Koch, Erlich, Mechnikov have the right to be grateful? .. How many fruitful instructive examples we find in the history of their life, their struggle with adversity, in the efforts they expended ...
“The fate of any truth is first to be ridiculed and then recognized,” said A. Schweitzer. Recognition came to some doctors during their lifetime, while others all their lives proved the correctness of the ideas they "suffered", being subjected to contempt and ridicule only because the scientific world was not able to comprehend the significance of their discoveries. They never learned about their contribution to science, having gone into oblivion, never knowing the warm rays of glory; their ideas were understood only by descendants. Such doctors include Semmelweis, during whose life his teachings were unsuccessful, and he ended his life in an insane asylum; Auenbrugger, who died forgotten and half-impoverished, remembered him and appreciated his discovery only a few decades later; Laennec, who was driven to the grave early by tuberculosis, and, finally, the greatest anatomist of all times and peoples Vesalius, unjustly insulted by his teacher and tragically died.
The history of medicine is an integral part of the development and movement of mankind. Voltaire calls great people only those who have rendered great services to humanity. Medicine has a long history, and, of course, the number of those worthy of being mentioned in this book is enormous. Personalities were selected by the author on the basis of their contribution to medicine; nevertheless, it is not easy to select the 100 most worthy from a huge line of excellent scientists, doctors and doctors. Even if there were 300 or 500 people to choose, it would be hard work. Naturally, many significant figures remained outside the portrait gallery.
Guided by the opinion of Seneca that “the memories of great people are as useful as their presence”, let us recall the numerous doctors who laid the foundation for the building of medical science and left a deep imprint on the historical memory of descendants.
M.S. Shoyfet, "One Hundred Great Doctors"
In 1922, at the same university, he defended his doctoral dissertation and was awarded a gold medal. The topic of his dissertation was cancer - diabetes mellitus, with which he vowed to settle scores while still a student. Research began in October 1920, when Bunting read an article by M. Barron, which described the blockade of the pancreatic duct by gallstones and the developing ...
The war began. Svyatoslav lived with his mother in Novocherkassk. I had to evacuate to Armenia, to Tsaghkadzor. In 1943, when Svyatoslav was seventeenth, he and a friend decided to apply to the artillery school. Let's go to Yerevan. Received. After studying for a year, I suddenly decided that it was better to fly. They transferred him to flight, in Rostov-on-Don. The Great Patriotic War lasted for the third year. Svyatoslav was eager ...
The University of Toronto appreciated the noble deed of Professor Bunting, who transferred all rights to insulin to the university, and in 1922 awarded him the Reeve Prize. A year later, the Canadian Parliament gave him a $ 7,500 annual annuity for life. And the very next year Bunting, along with MacLeod, became Nobel Prize winners. Banting shared part of his prize with Best, saying at ...
In 1954, his father was released. A daughter, Irina, was born, a future ophthalmic surgeon, candidate of medical sciences. Studying in absentia in the ordinance of his native institute was not easy for Fedorov, he didn’t have enough time. In 1958 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Changes in the eye with a brain tumor", and eight years later his doctoral dissertation (1966). I must say that Fedorov is not in character ...
Svyatoslav Fyodorov had reason to think that the hour of triumph had come. But it was not there. The luminaries of ophthalmology did not like the undertakings of the "upstart" from Chuvashia. An article appeared in Pravda where Fedorov's operations were called "antiphysiological." Fedorov's topic was immediately closed. Fedorov writes a letter of resignation from the research institute and goes to Moscow for support. At this time in ...
A new unique direction in ophthalmology is associated with the name of Professor Fedorov - refractive surgery. He developed a set of surgical methods to prevent the progression of myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia, and developed a special surgical instrument for these operations. For the first time in our country, Fedorov used an unconserved donor cornea for penetrating keratoplasty and improved the corresponding surgical technique, which made it possible to improve the results even ...
Forced to emigrate overseas from pre-war Europe, Selye settled in Canada, where he formulated a universal concept of stress. In 1936, in the journal "Nature" on July 4, in the section "Letters to the Editor", a short, only 74 lines, note by the young researcher Hans Selye was published under the title "Syndrome caused by different damaging agents", from here the beginning of the concept ...
The foregoing seems to be in good agreement with the original formulation of the concept of the general adaptation syndrome, according to which both positive and negative emotions cause biologically identical stress. Selye emphasizes that there is no need to be afraid of this, stress is an indispensable component of life, and it can not only reduce, but also increase the body's resistance. Stress is both love and creativity, which certainly bring pleasure ...
His troubles began at the end of the third year, when he discovered an abscess in the chest of a seriously ill girl. A respected physician invited for consultation did not agree with Jones' diagnosis. But when the abscess burst in front of Jones and the patient began to choke with pus, he decided not to delay the operation any longer. A consultant who appeared immediately said that Jones would have to be held accountable ...
Based on his clinical experience and theoretical research of psychoanalysis, Alexander came to the conclusion that these and many other diseases are based on the internal conflicts of the individual: the conflict between the need to obey and the desire to dominate; the conflict between addiction and the desire to be independent; the conflict between the need for achievement and the fear of failure; conflict between the level of aspirations and the level of achievement and expected results, etc. Psychosomatic ...
In the Museum of the History of Medicine, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Evdokimov, you can learn the history of the institute and trace the milestones in the development of dentistry in our country. The exposition of the museum is constantly updated. The museum is visited not only by university students and teachers, but also by schoolchildren, as well as those who are not indifferent to the development of medicine in Russia.
Museum of the History of Medicine, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Evdokimova conveys the history of the institute and tells about the milestones in the development of dentistry in our country. The exposition of the museum is constantly updated.
The year of foundation of the Museum of the History of Medicine, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. Evdokimov can be considered 1926, when the position of the head of the museum was introduced. The university itself was opened in 1922. The first expositions of the museum presented dummies, anatomical and pathological specimens, models of dental work, microphotograms, transparencies, drawings, tables, bacteriological collections, photographs, plaster casts and masks, dental models, anatomical models of teeth. The museum was closed in 1940.
The museum opened in July 1987 and began work on a new concept - the expositions focused on the history of the university and its scientists. In the halls of the museum, a photo collection, archival materials, gifts from individuals and scientific groups, textbooks, manuals, monographs, a portrait gallery of MMOMA scientists were exhibited. In 2003, a new exposition appeared, reflecting the stages of the formation of domestic dentistry and dentistry. Here you could see a collection of dental chairs and dental drills from different periods; a collection of instruments used in the therapeutic and surgical treatment of diseases of the oral cavity; sets of surgical instruments of the 19th-20th centuries; collection of signatures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; unique printed publications on dentistry; a collection of pharmaceutical dishes and utensils of the 19th-20th centuries; a collection of film-photo-phono materials about the activities of the university and the teaching staff; portrait gallery of scientists and professors of Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry and much more.
From 2011 to 2012 Museum of the History of Medicine, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Evdokimov was closed for repairs. After the reconstruction, the museum received a second hall and new equipment, as well as an updated exhibition with unique exhibits.
To the Museum of the History of Medicine, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Evdokimov, students, schoolchildren and teachers come.