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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1825</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2023-31-3-487-489</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE MANIFESTO OF NEW RUSSIAN HISTORIANS OF MEDICINE: THE OPEN LETTER TO EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL “THE PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL HYGIENE, HEALTH CARE AND HISTORY OF MEDICINE”</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Borodulin</surname><given-names>V. I.</given-names></name><email>borodul1nvladim@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">N. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, Russia</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2023-06-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>31</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>487</fpage><lpage>489</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-03"><day>03</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2023,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>&lt;p&gt;The author, on the grounds of archival documents discovered by S. N. Zatravkin and cited in Chapter I of the new book by S. N. Zatravkin and E. A. Vishlenkova, comes to conclusion that the Soviet history of medicine as scientific discipline did not exist. The history of medicine in the USSR must be written anew, using accumulated factual base after verification with primary sources and observing the rule of source criticism and comparative method.&lt;/p&gt;</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>the Soviet history of medicine</kwd><kwd>primary sources</kwd><kwd>source criticism</kwd><kwd>comparative method.</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>советская история медицины</kwd><kwd>первоисточники</kwd><kwd>метод критики источника</kwd><kwd>компаратив.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Затравкин С. Н., Вишленкова Е. А. «Клубы» и «гетто» советского здравоохранения. М.: Шико; 2022. 351 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>История медицины. Б. Д. Петров (ред.). Т. 1. Ин-т организации здравоохранения и истории медицины им. Н. А. Семашко АМН СССР. М.: Медгиз; 1954. 283 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>История медицины СССР. Б. Д. Петров (ред.). Ин-т организации здравоохранения и истории медицины им. Н. А. Семашко МЗ СССР. М.: Медицина; 1964. 646 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>Лушников А. Г. Клиника внутренних болезней в СССР. Основные направления клинической мысли. М.: Медицина; 1972. 200 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><label>5.</label><mixed-citation>Заблудовский П. Е., Крючок Г. Р., Кузьмин М. К., Левит М. М. История медицины. М.: Медицина; 1981. 352 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B6"><label>6.</label><mixed-citation>Болезнь и здоровье: новые подходы к истории медицины (коллективный сборник переводов). СПб.: Алтейя; 2008. С. 9.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B7"><label>7.</label><mixed-citation>Бородулин В. И. Клиника внутренних болезней в Российской империи. История в лицах. М.: Лакуэр; 2020. 336 с.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
