Doctors, Patients, Readers: Pathographic Texts of Russian Culture of the 18th-19th Centuries

Konstantin Bogdanov - doctor of philological sciences, historian of culture, author of books "Money in Folklore" (1995), "Homo Tacens: Essays on the anthropology of silence" (1998), "Daily and mythology: research on folk factory reality" (2001), commented Translation of the scientific and astronomical poem of Arat Solia"s "phenomena" (2000) The topic of this book is the texts and events that demonstrate the relationship of the powerful, medical and literary ideas about the physical nature of the person and their influence on society. A separate part of the book is devoted to the history of cholera epidemics in Russia, which played a cardinal role in the formation of the "medical and political rhetoric and stereotype of the" enemy of the people "