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Manual for a Better Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

Christopher Burton
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Extract

One of the many achievements of Kate Brown's remarkable new book is to relocate the Chernobyl disaster and its official medicine internationally, but Manual for Survival also certainly illuminates the particularities of Soviet and post-Soviet medicine. The Soviet Union had a penchant for secret medicine with regard to radiation. Brown's readers learn early of Angelina Gus΄kova, who was the first expert in Moscow to be called by the accident-stricken staff at the reactor, had treated more patients with radiation sickness than anyone else in the world, and had written the Soviet manual on the subject. Yet she did this having been forbidden to ask any patient directly about their exposure.

Type
Critical Discussion Forum: Kate Brown, A Manual for Survival: Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Information
Slavic Review , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , Summer 2020 , pp. 280 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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