I.V. Bertenson – a man who stood at the origin of preventive medicine, health care organizer and public figure (to the 125th anniversary of his death)
https://doi.org/10.47470/0016-9900-2021-100-2-178-181
Abstract
The article is devoted to I.V. Bertenson, the famous Russian hygienist and public figure, organizer of health care, a staunch follower of N.I. Pirogov. I.V. Bertenson made a significant contribution to the development of hospital hygiene in Russia. He combined the management of the first barrack hospital in Russia with the Petersburg provincial medical inspector’s post. A «School for the education of medical assistants» and a free clinic for visiting patients were also established on his initiative. I.V. Bertenson was one of the founders of the journal «Archive of forensic medicine and public hygiene» and the first editor of the «Bulletin of the Russian Red Cross Society.» In connection with the beginning of the cholera epidemic in the capital in 1866, Bertenson created one of the cholera shelters. A close friend, the first biographer editor of books N.I. Pirogov. Member of the international sanitary congresses and a member of many medical societies.
About the Authors
Irene V. Yegorysheva
N.A. Semashko National scientific research Institute of Public Health
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MD, PhD., researcher of the Department of history of medicine of the N.A. Semashko National scientific research Institute of Public Health, Moscow, 105064, Russia Federation.
e-mail: egorysheva@rambler.ru
Alexey V. Morozov
Medical Institute, Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MD, Ph.D., associate professor of the course of the history of medicine, Medical Institute, Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, 117198, Russia Federation.
e-mail: a0067138@yandex.ru
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Yegorysheva I.V., Morozov A.V. I.V. Bertenson – a man who stood at the origin of preventive medicine, health care organizer and public figure (to the 125th anniversary of his death). Hygiene and Sanitation. 2021;100(2):178-181. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.47470/0016-9900-2021-100-2-178-181
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