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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Description: The idea of âbackwardnessâ often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Dr. John P. Davis counteracts this âbackwardnessâ paradigm, arguing that from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries, Russian medical researchersâalong with their counterparts in France and Germanyâwere at the forefront of the struggle against cholera. Davisâ birds-eye view of this hundred-year period illustrates that the conditions allowing cholera to flourish were the same set of conditions that helped create the collapse of the tsarist regime during the First World War. Credit for elimination...