The Gulag doctors : life, death, and medicine in Stalin's labour camps
Healey, Dan2024
Books, Manuscripts
A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas, succumbed to exhaustion, emaciation, and illness. It seems paradoxical that any medical care was available in the camps. But it was in fact ubiquitous. By 1939 the Gulag Sanitary Department employed 10,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics - about 40 percent of whom were prisoners. Dan Healey explores the lives of the medical staff who treated inmates in the Gulag.
Main title:
Author:
Healey, Dan, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]©2024
Collation:
xviii, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780300187137 (hbk)
Dewey class:
365.667094709043365.6670947365.667
LC class:
HV8964.S65
Language:
English
Subject:
GULag NKVD -- HistoryPrisoners -- Medical care -- Soviet Union -- HistoryForced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th centuryPrison physicians -- Soviet UnionPrisoners -- Medical care -- Soviet UnionForced labor -- Soviet UnionInternment camps -- Soviet UnionTrue CrimeSoviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
BRN:
3829331