Story of the history of medicine in Ukraine: pre-Soviet, Soviet and post- Soviet periods (XIX — early XXI centuries)

Prof. K.K. Vasiliyev

Odessa National Medical University

We propose to allocate three periods in formation and development of the History of Medicine in Ukraineas a science and a subject of teaching. The first period is the pre-Soviet one. There appeared the first historiansof medicine and works on the History of Medicine. The publication of these works stimulated the presence ofthe History of Medicine as a subject of teaching at the medical faculties of the Universities. The second periodis the Soviet one. There was institutionalization of the History of Medicine in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Historical Medical Society, the Department of the History of Medicine, the Departments of the History of Medicine inResearch Institutes were created. They began to hold Conferences on the History of Medicine. The Museumof Medicine was opened in Kiev. The third period is the post-Soviet one. In the absence of All-Ukrainian JointCenter, there was a process that could be called fragmentation of the Society of medical historians. At the sametime, the expansion and deepening of historical medical research work continued, and the number of publishedbooks on the History of Medicine increased dramatically. The issue of the historical medical magazine «Agapit» (1994—2004) should be considered as the achievement of the post-Soviet period.

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