Hormones and the Bolsheviks: from organotherapy to experimental endocrinology, 1918-1929.
Hormones and the Bolsheviks: from organotherapy to experimental endocrinology, 1918-1929.
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激素和布尔什维克:从器官疗法到实验内分泌学,1918-1929。
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10.1086/591710
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2008
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Krementsov,Nikolai
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Krementsov,Nikolai
The discipline of endocrinology emerged over roughly the same period in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, and its practitioners across the world shared research practices and agendas to a considerable degree. Yet the discipline's institutions, networks, and social practices were firmly embedded in the particular social fabric of concrete locales, and they were built on specific local traditions, resources, and patronage. Through analysis of the origins and early progress of Soviet endocrinology, this essay uncovers numerous factors and multiple actors involved with the institutional development of the discipline in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. As elsewhere in the world, the medicinal use of animal tissue extracts—organotherapy—paved the way for wide acceptance of the ideas of the nascent science of endocrinology by both the Soviet medical community and the general public. Organotherapy also supplied the new discipline with “seed” institutions, technologies, and personnel—the veterinarian Iakov Tobolkin and the therapist Vasilii Shervinskii. But the specific institutional, political, economic, and ideological landscape of Soviet Russia shaped the discipline in a particular way.