МИФЫ О СМЕРТИ Н. В. ГОГОЛЯ: ИСТОЧНИКИ, СТАНОВЛЕНИЕ, ПОЭТИКА

The article follows up the origin of the myth of the funeral of Gogol in the state of lethargy. The ideological roots of this myth, which still obscures the real history of the last days of Gogol’s life and the very content of his spiritual heritage, are studied. A wide range of problems related to the practice of professional treatment in the first half of the 19th century, including the phenomenon of mercantilism and lack of professionalism of some physicians of that time, the problem of frequent nondistincion of apparent death and lethargic state by the medicine of that time, as well as the question of the relationship between the physiological component of the disease and spiritual means of healing used by Gogol, are touched upon in the article. Attention is drawn to the unsuccessfulness of the writer’s long treatment in numerous European and domestic medical bodies. The identities of several reputable doctors who treated the writer are confirmed. The apocryphalness of some information reported in the memoirs about Gogol of the head physician A. T. Tarasenkov is noted. The distortion of Gogol’s image in these memoirs is explained by the pragmatic approach of the doctor in standing up for the corporate interests of the medical caste. The content of the last days of Gogol is put in the context of the writer’s ideas about the providential value of the ailments, regarded bu the writer as a kind of “road signs”, encouraging everyone to search for the right path, and the artist, in addition, to improve his writing. The study of biased opinions about Gogol as a religious fanatic, whose behavior before his death supposedly caused his premature death, allows us to conclude that the biographical myth has a deliberate and constructed character.

Chronicle and mix

The current year began very unhappily for psychiatric institutions. Disorders and discord among doctors were again discovered in Buraptev. In Odessa, with Dr. Shchipkovsky, the head of the psychiatric department, a very ugly story was also played out, which ended with the intervention of the judiciary. In the Kherson Psychiatric Clinic, an audit is being carried out regarding the abuse found in it by the head physician, who is temporarily removed from the performance of his duties. All these facts lead to very sad reflections.

Letter to the editor

Dear Mr. Editor! In the section "Chronicle and mixture", issue 2 of the V volume of "Neurological Bulletin", there is a note in which it is said that "in the Kherson psychiatric hospital, an audit is being carried out regarding the abuse discovered by the head physician, who has been temporarily removed from the performance of his duties." This naturally leads the author of the lock "to very sad reflections." One cannot but agree with the author that "it is extremely sad to mark such sad facts in our literature!" But first of all the facts or other facts should be recognized as sad on the moral and ethical side and published, it would seem, one must a priori be convinced of their validity.

More Virulent Than Disease

“More Virulent than Disease” is a chapter from the historical novel, Painted Butterflies. This excerpt is written through the voice of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934), Nobel Prize Winner, who is credited with being “The Father of Modern Neuroscience.” In this piece, Santiago is in his mid-twenties recounting the four years since his return from the Separatist War in Cuba (Ten Years War), where he served as a head physician in a remote jungle hospital. Here, he ruminates about his recovery from illnesses which he acquired in the tropics, from which he barely survived. His hopefulness, his need for artistic expression, his passion for the natural world and the courage he observed from others brought Santiago through one of the darkest periods of his life. Painted Butterflies follows the life and scientific work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal through his journal entries. His story is expressed through his 19th century lens, but is also seen through the eyes of a modern, fictional neuroscientist, Rebecca Calhoun, who is navigating graduate school in the United States. Across two centuries and continents, these scientists discover themselves and what drives their passions for living deeply and the excitement of discovery. When Santiago’s journal falls mysteriously into Rebecca’s hands, they become connected by a scientific theory, spurned by Santiago’s prescience into how memory works. As if Santiago is whispering in her ear, Rebecca pursues her idea on how to enhance the brain’s capacity for memory (and succeeds), but there is a caveat that takes her findings to an unexpected and more personal place.

Prototypes of Official Authority Figures in F. M. Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead (Based on Archival Materials)

The article introduces new archival materials into scientific discourse, i. e., the service records of the identified prototypes of official authority figures in <i>The House of the Dead</i> by F. M. Dostoevsky. The archival documents provided an opportunity to fill in the gaps in the biographies of those who held military and medical posts during the writer’s Siberian exile: major Krivtsov, field engineer Gladyshev, head physician Troitsky and resident physician Lovchinsky. It also allowed us to see which of the officials’ traits were depicted in the novel’s characters. A number of events and details were revealed thanks to the memories of the exiled Pole Joseph Boguslavsky. Thus, the prototypical nature of the characters in <i>The House of the Dead</i> was clarified as new facts were revealed and the already known details were revised.

What’s in a latin name?: Cycas wadei & the politics of nomenclature

This history piece analyzes colonial-era correspondence and botany publications fascinated with Cycas wadei, a cycad observed only to grow on the island of Culion in the province of Palawan. First spotted in 1902 by U.S. botanist Elmer D. Merrill, the cycad became the preoccupation of U.S. and Filipino scientists alike. It took nearly three and a half decades before the species was introduced in the Philippine Journal of Science in 1936 as C. wadei, named after Herbert W. Wade, head physician of the Culion leper colony established by the U.S. colonial government at the turn of the century. Tracking the history of this species—from its first sighting to its debut before the international botany community—reveals much about the institutional workings of colonial science in the Philippines in the years leading up to the Commonwealth era. It further inspires us to take stock of the ways in which the politics of Latin binomial nomenclature of a species can be historicized across scales of human and institutional interaction. Such an intellectual practice can help us continue to shed light on the history of taxonomy in the Philippines.

THE HISTORY OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY IN THE SECHENOV UNIVERSITY

The article is devoted to the history of establishing the Department of Pediatric Surgery and UrologyAndrology of theSechenovUniversity. The role of the first PD of the EmperorMoscowUniversity and founder of pediatric surgery as a science Leonty P. Aleksandrov was described. He organized a course devoted to pediatric surgical diseases in 1893 and was the head physician of Saint Olga’sPediatricHospital. He also founded the Society of Pediatric Surgeons inMoscow, and was an initiator of the meeting of Russian surgeons conducting serious work on the organization of meetings of Russian surgeons in memory of N. I. Pirogov. In 2008, he founded a Department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology-Andrology of theFirstMoscowStateUniversitynamed after I. M. Sechenov. The article describes therapeutic, research, organizational and pedagogical work of the department since its establishment till now.

Skills Required to Head Physician for the Management of Staff. Emotions in the Organizational Context

This short paper aims to identify the key skills required for personnel management that makes it possible a peaceful business climate and a level of excellence in services rendered. Are analyzed particularly emotional skills like e.g. mindfulnessa

The relationship between burnout and mobbing among hospital managers

Background: Mobbing and burnout can cause serious consequences, especially for health workers and managers. Level of burnout and exposure to mobbing may trigger each other. There is a need to conduct additional and specific studies on the topic to develop some strategies. Research objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between level of burnout and exposure to mobbing of the managers (head physician, assistant head physician, head nurse, assistant head nurse, administrator, assistant administrator) at the Ministry of Health hospitals. Research design: The “Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terrorization” scale was used to measure the level of exposure to mobbing and the “Maslach Burnout Inventory” scale was used to measure the level of burnout of hospital managers. The relationship between level of burnout and exposure to mobbing was analyzed by Pearson’s Correlation Analysis. Participants and research context: The population of this study included managers (454 managers) at the Ministry of Health hospitals in the metropolitan area of Ankara between September 2010 and May 2011. All the managers were tried to conduct, but some managers did not want to reply to the questionnaire and some managers were not found at their workplace. Consequently, using a convenience sampling, 54% of the managers replied to the questionnaire (244 managers). Ethical consideration: The approval of the study was granted by the Ministry of Health in Turkey. Furthermore, the study was evaluated and accepted by the Education, Planning and Coordination Council of one of the education and research hospitals in the study. Findings: Positive relationships were found among each subdimension of the mobbing and emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. A negative relationship was found between each subdimension of the mobbing and personal accomplishment. Discussion: In hospitals, by detecting mobbing actions, burnout may be prevented. Conclusion: Exposure to mobbing and burnout could be a serious problem for head nurses who are responsible for both the performance of the nurses and organization. Additionally, head nurses who are faced with mobbing and burnout are more likely to provide suboptimal services which could potentially result in negative outcomes. Therefore, this study draws attention to the importance of preventing these attitudes in the organization.