Here is my first draft for my project on tuberculosis in Russian prisons. This draft focuses on public health in Russia and the rate of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis from the 1940s until present day. This draft will eventually be a part of my final project as an overall summary of health care and disease control in Russian history.
Here is the link: http://goo.gl/1LajGZ
This my initial annotated bibliography for a blog on the tuberculosis epidemic in Russian prisons.
Connor, Walter D., ed., Anthony Jones, and David E. Powell. Soviet Social Problems. Colorado: Westview Press, 1991.
This book is a compilation of articles focused on the denial of social problems in the USSR. Esteemed professors of Russian history and politics wrote all the articles.
Filtzer, Donald. The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2010. URLhttp://www.amazon.com/Hazards-Urban-Life-Stalinist- Russia/dp/0521113733
This book examines the health care and hygiene conditions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. This book will help in my discussion of how tuberculosis spreads. The author is an authority of the subject of Russian history and teaches at the University of East London.
Micheals, Paula A. Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire In Stalin’s Central Asia. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
Soviet officials attempted to improve hygienic practices in Kazakhstan. Dr. Michaels is a European history of medicine professor at Monash University.
Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, et al. “Screening And Rapid Molecular Diagnosis Of Tuberculosis In Prisons In Russia And Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effective Analysis. (Report).” Plos Medicine 11 (2012).
This article develops a cost-effective method of treatment for tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Russian prisons. All of the contributors work for various health care institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
Lobacheva, T, T Asikainen, and J Giesecke. “Risk Factors for developing tuberculosis in remand prisons in St. Petersburg, Russia- a case-control study.” European Journal Of Epidemiology 22, no. 2 (n.d.): 121-127.
This study attempts to find all risk factors for developing tuberculosis in remand prisons and spreading of the disease upon release. This article will help in my explanation of what can be done to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in prisons. This study was done by professors at Stockholm University in Sweden.
M McKee, et al. “Prison Health In Russia: The Larger Picture.” Journal Of Public Health Policy 26.1 (2005): 30-59.
This article focuses on the health issues in Russian prisons and how they can be cured. This will explain what prisons can do to help their inmates stop spreading diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV.