‘I’m needed there’
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Gulag Medicine, 9 May 2024
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps
by Dan Healey.
Yale, 336 pp., £30, February,978 0 300 18713 7 Show More
by Dan Healey.
Yale, 336 pp., £30, February,
“... population, and treatment of TB and venereal diseases were important concerns of camp medicine. Healey’s emphasis, however, is on illness related to exhaustion, malnutrition and harsh work conditions – pellagra, scurvy, dysentery, frostbite and limbs broken in industrial accidents.In Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag (2017), which was based on ... ”
