MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND HEALTH CARE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE NORTH OF THE BURYAT-MONGOLIAN ASSR AT THE END OF THE 1920S - IN THE 1930S
Bashkuev Vsevolod Yur'evich
Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Submitted: 28.10.2019
Abstract. The article examines poorly investigated historical aspects of interaction of the Soviet physicians with indigenous peoples in the north of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR while developing the socialist healthcare system in this region. Analysing a published medical report and unpublished archival documents, the author identifies the peculiarities of medical examination of the Soyots and the Evenks paying special attention to medical perception of their everyday life and health problems. The paper provides a Soviet physician’s description of the Soyots’ traditional lifestyle, emphasizes medical interpretation of the causes of prevalence of parasitogenic, dermic and venereal diseases among the Soyots. The structure of the Buryatia Evenks’ sickness rate is revealed.
Key words and phrases: народы севера Бурятии, сойоты, эвенки, здравоохранение, экспедиции, традиционный уклад жизни, peoples of Northern Buryatia, the Soyots, the Evenks, healthcare, expeditions, traditional lifestyle
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