This is a history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag. It looks at how doctors and nurses treated inmates in the camps despite repression, supply shortages and isolation.
From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through the Gulag. Many inmates who did not reach their work quotas died of exhaustion, emaciation and illness. By 1939 the Gulag Sanitary Department employed 10,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics, and about 40 percent of them were prisoners.
Dan Healey explores the lives of these medical staff. They created hospitals, re-fed prisoners, treated diseases and saved a proportion of their patients. They also taught apprentices and conducted research. The book presents the camps as experienced by their medical staff.
- Author
- Dan Healey
- Subject
- Medical care in Stalin's Gulag labor camps, 1930 to 1953
- Category
- 20th century modern history