[The review of the monograph "Ambroise Paré. The first surgeon of the Kingdom" by E. E. Berger]

The review considers the approach placing famous French surgeon A. Paré into more general European context of European Renaissance of XVI century and into local context of intellectual life of Paris of this period. The refutation of widespread in history of medicine opinion about strict separation of university medicine from artisan surgery in Medieval Europe is discussed.

[The Soviet health care: in searching unicorn]

The article review the book about the Soviet health care. The analysis of its content and main conclusions is presented. The book inflicts powerful blow on myth of numerous merits, achievements, progressiveness, impeccability and humanity of the Soviet health care. The authors bring up issue of applying new theoretical and methodological basis in studying the Soviet health care. The certain directions of further study of health care in the USSR are proposed.

[The stomatological care of schoolchildren in the Soviet Russia in 1920s: Succession of ideas]

The article considers historical interaction between the Soviet Russia and the Weimar Republic related to prevention of caries in children in 1920s and the role of P. G. Dauge in it. The methodology of German Professor A. Kantorovich with minor alterations was adopted to be applied in organization of dental care of schoolchildren in the RSFSR. In the Soviet Russia, the practical implementation of planned oral cavity sanation in children started on a national scale only in second half of the 1920s. It was caused by skeptical attitude of dentists to methodology of "planned sanation" in conditions of the Soviet Russia.

[The statistics and public health in Russia (end of XIX - early XX centuries): foreign approaches in educational literature]

In Russia, since the end of XIX century the statistical method became the main method of cognition in public health (social hygiene). The article is devoted to the study of academic literature on theory of public health statistics in Russia and the USSR in the 1880s-1930s. The first experience in Russia of description of statistics in educational literature on hygiene is expounded in the lectures of F. F. Erisman (1887). In the 1920s, the German literature was used to compose Russian educational literature on social hygiene statistics. The English scientific tradition in statistics was reflected in the works of Yu. L. Pomorsky, compiled on the basis of the works of R. Fisher. In the 1920s and 1930s, complex mathematical and statistical methods were not claimed in social hygienic research in the USSR due to political attitudes.

[Transfer of ideas and technologies in dentistry between Soviet Russia and the Weimar Republic in the 1920-1930s]

The article is devoted to the study of the continuity of ideas and technologies between Germany and the Soviet Russia in dentistry in the 1920-1930s, as well as to the determination of the role of these ties for the Soviet dentistry.

[The organizational forms of the Soviet Mongol cooperation in the area of medicine and health care in 1920s-1930s. Part II.The operation of expeditions of the Narkomzdrav of the RSFSR]

The article proceeds to analyze the results of the study of organizational forms of Soviet assistance to the Mongolian People's Republic in the field of medicine and health care. The characteristics of organization and activities of the first, second, and subsequent medical sanitary expeditions of the Narkomzdrav of the RSFSR in Mongolia. The new archival documents are introduced into scientific circulation, allowing to verify critical assessment of activities of the first expedition under direction of A. A. Frantsuzov presented in in the reports of G. V. Ivitsky, the member of the expedition. The relationship between the second medical sanitary expedition staff, the Mongolian government and the Soviet physicians at Mongolian service are considered in detail. The role of medical sanitary expeditions as special form of Soviet assistance to Mongolia, allowing to resolve at the same time several tasks of local and strategic nature, and their contribution into the development of the Mongolian health care at early stages is highlighted.

[The organizational forms of the Soviet Mongol cooperation in the area of medicine and health care in 1920s-1930s. Part I. Formation of two approaches]

In 1920s - late 1980s, active cooperation between the USSR and Mongolia in the field of medicine and health care had been occurred. The Mongolian People's Republic was the first country to which the USSR exported its organization of health care system, using it as a means of geopolitical influence and instrument of the socialist transformation of traditional nomadic society. At the same time, assistance to Mongolia began when the USSR itself had not yet completed the organization of new health care system, including needed medical personnel and resources, receiving assistance from Germany and other European countries. The article discusses the reasons of the Soviet leadership's hasty decision to force assistance to the Mongolian People's Republic in the field of medicine and health care. Two approaches to its implementation are singled out and explained: the evolutionary one, when experienced Soviet doctors were selected and sent to the Mongolian Department of Health care, and the forced one - through organization of expeditions of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR, which simultaneously studied the medical and sanitary situation in the country and organized medical institutions where the assistance was needed the most.

[Soviet medicine on the pages of American medical periodicals: «American Review of Soviet Medicine» (1943-1948) in the context of relations between the USSR and the USA]

In 1943-1948 the American Review of Soviet Medicine was published in the United States. The journal contained full translations or brief summaries in English of the most significant articles from the Soviet medical press, reviews of Soviet medicine and public health practice written by American physicians, reviews of Soviet books on medicine, news of the American-Soviet Medical Society, as well as presentations by prominent Soviet medical scientists. After the changes in the political course of the USSR and the USA and the beginning of the Cold War, the American Review of Soviet Medicine was closed down.