CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Mazanik, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Sanitation, Urban Environment and the Politics of Public Health in Late Imperial Moscow |
| Summary | The dissertation analyzes the activity of the late-imperial Moscow elites in the sphere of urban sanitation between the mid-1870s and 1905. The main research problems of the dissertation are: which motivations – political, scientific, social, or economic - were behind the sanitary reforms, who cared and why they cared and which shape their goals took in practice. Although in nineteenth-century Russia the emerging field of public health became a highly politicized subject, scholars have devoted little attention to the local politics of health and the use of medical sciences in the urban reforms.The goal of the dissertation thus is to bring the urban dimension to the history of late-imperial Russian medicine and public health, as well as the health dimension to the Russian urban history. The thesis focuses on three aspects of urban health policies: the prevention of venereal disease; the regulation of slaughtering and meat production; the removal and treatment of urban wastes. It argues that Moscow’s project of sanitation implied both “serving the people” and disciplining them. The service to the urban community was expressed in applying scientific knowledge and the municipal resources to fight disease and provide medical assistance to those in need. The disciplinary mechanisms were introduced through imposing new norms of “healthy” and “civilized” behavior. At the same time, the dissertation emphasizes that the realization of these entangled processes was hindered by the social and political realities of the autocratic Russian Empire. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Alexei |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/mazanik_anna.pdf |
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