Clare Griffin

Email address: c.griffin@ucl.ac.uk

Working title of thesis: The Production and Consumption of Medical Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Russia: The Apothecary Chancery, 1629 - 1714

Present degree status: PhD candidate

Start date of research: September 2008

Supervisors: Dr Sergei Bogatyrev, Professor Martyn Rady

Centre to which the thesis is affiliated: Centre for Russian Studies

Description of research topic:
My thesis is based on the records of the tsars' medical department, the Apothecary Chancery, as well as some medical texts linked to that department. Using these sources, I examine how and why certain pieces of medical knowledge were presented to the Russian chancery and courtly elite as reports, and what the topics of these reports can tell us about how Russians used foreign medical ideas.

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