The Russian Medical Humanities : Past, Present, and Future.

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Intro -- Table and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Konstantin Starikov and Melissa L. Miller -- Part I HISTORY AND EDUCATION -- Chapter One Physicians' Charity as a Lynchpin in Forming Medical Community Evgeniya L. Panova and Maria S. Tutorskaya -- Chapter Two The History of the Formation and Maintenance of the Osteological Collections in Russia in the Nineteenth-Twenty-First Centuries Maria P. Kuzybaeva -- Chapter Three The Doctor as a Humanist An International, Interdisciplinary, and Intergenerational Project at Sechenov University Jonathan McFarland and Irina Markovina -- Chapter Four Chekhov in North American Medical Schools Surveying the Pre-COVID Attitudes of Slavic Scholars and Their Role in Medical Humanities Konstantin Starikov -- Part II MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE -- Chapter Five Pauline Tarnowsky and the Russian Influence on Cesare Lombroso's Criminal Woman Frederick H. White -- Chapter Six Narrative Medicine in Chekhov and Bulgakov Melissa L. Miller -- Chapter Seven Social Cataclysm through the Doctor's Eyes Vikentii Veresaev's The Deadlock as Diagnostic Narrative Natalia Vygovskaia -- Chapter Eight Wards of the State Russian Medical Fiction Angela Brintlinger -- Chapter Nine Still Alice, Always Elena Dementia as a World of Possibility Jehanne Gheith -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This volume brings together Russian and American experts to explore fundamental issues in the medical humanities. By examining humanities-focused medical education, health and healthcare, and illness and recovery in Russian culture, this volume presents new insight into what it means to understand another's pain, to heal, and to be human.