| Title |
Power unto sickness, sickness unto power in the periphery of soviet psychiatry / |
| Authors |
Vaiseta, Tomas |
| DOI |
10.25143/amhr.2020.XIII.03 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Acta medico-historica Rigensia.. Riga : Riga Stradiņš University and Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine.. 2020, vol. 13, no. 32, p. 29-57.. ISSN 1022-8012. eISSN 2592-818X |
| Keywords [eng] |
soviet Lithuania ; psychiatry ; parallelisation |
| Abstract [eng] |
The three most important processes in psychiatric hospitals of the Lithuanian SSR (1944–1990) have been analysed in terms of the centre-periphery relation. Two of them are named “power unto sickness”, that is, the Soviet state’s efforts to influence people with deviant behaviours who were considered to have “mental diseases”. The third process in psychiatric hospitals of the Lithuanian SSR, “parallelisation”, in which the modern hospital, alongside its formal therapeutic function, acquired parallel, non-formal functions, has been described. |
| Published |
Riga : Riga Stradiņš University and Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2020 |
| CC license |
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