CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Pasichnyk, Kateryna |
|---|---|
| Title | Official Physicians within the Medical Landscape of the Russian Empire (1760s) |
| Summary | This thesis concerns the creation of official physicians in the 1760s Russian empire, focusing primarily on the example of a group of recruited students from the Kiev-Mohyla Academy to the hospital schools in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The recruitments of students created a basis for interaction between the State Medical Chancellery, the local administration of the Hetmanate (Left-Bank Ukraine)—the semi-autonomous territory where the Academy was located—and the students who volunteered to study medicine. The underlying question of the research is why students decided to shift their social affiliation and embark upon the path of medical servants. The research will compare the Chancellery’s vision of recruitment as embodied in the legal framework it created and the challenges it faced when it came time to implement said laws. It shows social and cultural considerations which pushed students of different social backgrounds to choose a medical profession. It also traces the graduates’ careers and their involvement into the state service, the cultivation of a new identity of doctors and also looks at how they enforced their authority by opposing illegal healers. The thesis finds that the recruitment of students from the Academy to new educational centers and their subsequent engagement in the imperial structures reveal the process of an inadvertent integration of subjects from the Hetmanate into a broader imperial network. |
| Supervisor | Lafferton, Emese |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/pasichnyk_kateryna.pdf |
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