Medicine is usually criticized for not doing a good enough job of solving its main task - correctly recognizing and treating diseases without causing harm to patients. Unfortunately, following the rule “Do no harm!” Doctors are not always successful.

Magical healing has always played and continues to play an important role in everyday practices from the archaic period to the present day. Many works have already been written on this topic, and evidence of the importance of magical healing for traditional culture is hardly worth refuting. Nevertheless, the analysis of numerous stories of turning to magic for healing leaves open questions about the specifics of healing practices in different cultures and in different eras.

In the State Archives of the Russian Federation, in the fund of the Ministry of State Control 8033, inventory 26, file No. 424 is stored. Behind the everyday title on the cover is “Check of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin.

Multistructure is characteristic of the economy of transition periods, when new structures are formed next to the old ones. In the process of dismantling the Soviet economic system, at least three structures emerged in the agricultural sector. Firstly, these are large and medium-sized agricultural enterprises - the heirs of collective and state farms; there were 22 thousand of them in 2003. Secondly, these are farms, there are an order of magnitude more of them, 264 thousand.

Print Maria Malikova NEP is a historical period with a name-slogan that successfully reflects its belonging to the era of modernity, clearly defined time boundaries (X Congress of the RCP(b), 1921 - V All-Union Congress of Soviets, 1929) and a recognizable everyday appearance [1] . We will use the differentiation proposed by G. O. Vinokur between the “new economic policy” and the popular abbreviation “NEP”, or “Nepo”.

Relative health care costs in different countries can differ by more than 10 times. The United States is in the lead with 15.2% of GDP, with Equatorial Guinea at the bottom of the list with 1.5% of GDP. Russia, with its 5.6%, shares 80-86th positions with China, South Korea, Burkina Faso, Togo and Guinea-Bissau; among European countries it ranks 44th. In absolute figures, annual health costs in different countries range from $14 in the Congo to $5,711 in the United States.

On the 30th Anniversary of Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis The place where the tree of knowledge grows is paradise; This is what both ancient and modern snakes say. Friedrich Nietzsche This year, a coincidence occurred that went virtually unnoticed: all over the country, graduate students began taking an exam in history and philosophy of science instead of an exam in philosophy, and it was also 30 years since the publication of Ivan Illich’s book “The Limits of Medicine.

Natalya Kozlova. Soviet people: Scenes from history. M.: Publishing House Europe, 2005. 544 p. Natalya Kozlova (1946-2002) became famous thanks to the book “That’s what I want to call cinema,” published ten years ago in collaboration with Irina Sandomirskaya [1] . This book reproduced the full text of the notes of E. G. Kiseleva, an illiterate woman from the Lugansk region, who described her life in the hope that someone would turn these notes into a script for a serial film.

AT THE SICK'S BED [1] You greeted me so warmly, but first I have to ask for forgiveness, first of all, for the fact that I ended up here in the first place. I was a doctor for ten years, but I studied thirty-five years ago and was hopelessly behind the times. Besides, after giving speeches in crystal clear and beautiful English, you will have to endure the reasoning of a person who speaks English as a foreigner, and for many this will most likely be an ordeal.

On the attitude of Russian residents to health, illness, treatment and doctors In Soviet times, there was a popular joke about the “six paradoxes of socialism”: there is no unemployment - but no one works, no one works - but plans are being fulfilled, plans are being fulfilled - but the stores are empty... etc. Today’s relations look approximately the same Russians with their own health and medicine.

Print Nina Braginskaya From letters to N. Braginskaya (1972-2002) [1] In 1972, when my correspondence with Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov began, he was not famous and surrounded by charisma, like Averintsev. But I still realized that communication with ML was a treasure given to me for free, and I kept his letters. Alas, not all. I have now found 120 letters and neat postcards, I think there are more, I did not find some important and memorable letters.

About doctors and healing This manuscript was sent to me by a well-known doctor in Kyiv in the 60-70s, Doctor of Medical Sciences. I met him when, at the invitation of Viktor Nekrasov, I went to Kyiv to celebrate Victory Day in the company of front-line soldiers.

Evgeny Yasin. Will democracy take root in Russia? M.: New publishing house, 2006. 384 p. “Why Russia Needs Democracy” - that, in my opinion, would be a better title for this book. “Will democracy take root in Russia” is still a question from the 80s and 90s of the last century. Then it was relevant for a significant “advanced” part of Russian society, and the question was: why democracy? — for the same part of society seemed clear and decided.

Print Dmitry Epshtein Remember where “The Gulag Archipelago” begins? The author accidentally came across a magazine article from 1949, printed in small letters: in Kolyma, workers discovered an ancient newt in the ice and willingly ate it. Solzhenitsyn needed several volumes to explain the “true heroic meaning of a careless note” - what kind of people are willing to willingly eat a fossil and how they ended up in Kolyma.

The scientific literature devoted to the problem of cancer is enormous [1] . However, there is practically no work that poses the question: “What is cancer?” This is apparently explained by the fact that the answer to it seems obvious: cancer is a severe, chronic, often fatal disease, with its own specific characteristics, but in general it is one of many.