Сергей Каплун о советской медицинской дисциплине "Гигиена труда" (1928 – 1936)

Дальневосточный медицинский журнал. 2022. № 2. С. 63–71.

Яковенко В.А.

Based on the articles by S.I. Kaplun published in the fi rst edition of the Big Medical Encyclopedia, this research investigates the disciplinary conventions he proposed for boundaries, content and methods of Soviet labor hygiene. It is suggested that while Kaplun presented labor hygiene as a new Soviet discipline, he considered it in connection to its pre-revolutionary Russian and foreign analogues. This paper further demonstrates that Kaplun described the labor hygiene as an interdisciplinary fi eld which used a hybrid language. It is also shown that even though Kaplun recognized the importance of foreign research for the development of Soviet labor hygiene, he denied scientists from capitalist countries the ability to infl uence healthcare practices of their states. Finally, the article concludes with the ideological critique of Kaplun in 1931 that led to changing his narrative and beginning to criticize his colleagues. Nevertheless, by the end of the 1930s he and the rest of the Soviet social hygienists had lost their infl uence.

Keywords: история СССР, history of medicine, история медицины, history of the USSR

Publication based on the results of: Moral Emotions and Ethical Issues in the History of Russian Universities (2022)