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Врачи, пациенты, читатели. Патографические тексты русской культуры
“Physicians, Patients, Readers” is the most famous book by Konstantin Bogdanov, a uniquely large-scale study of medical and literary ideas about the physical nature of man and their influence on society. How do medicine and fiction relate to each other? How were the innovations of Peter I perceived in Russia? How did suicides, surgical operations, treatment with electricity, magnetism relate to in the 18th and 19th centuries? Why did the horror of premature burial at the beginning of the 19th century acquire a truly enormous scale? The reader will find the answers to these and many other questions on the pages of the book " Physicians, Patients, Readers," which combines the rigor of scientific research with the fascination of presentation. The book is intended for a wide circle of readers interested in the history of Russian culture.