[Quiet time at a cancer care facility in Moscow]

[Quiet time at a cancer care facility in Moscow]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Language(s):
English
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Cancer Care Facilities
Patients
USSR
World Health Organization.
Abstract:
Interior view: two patients are sitting in a recreation(?) room at the facility; one is reading the newspaper, the other is dozing on the sofa; a checkerboard and checkers are on a table in the foreground. Verso: WHO/11030. USSR-Cancer. The USSR against cancer. In a special issue World Health sets out to show how the world's second leading cause of deathis being fought. In its fight against cancer, the USSR concenntrates on mass examination, treatment and research. All men over 35 and all women over 30 have to be examined at least once a year. Twenty million people in the USSR were examined in 1963 and the mass campaign, begun in 1948, is being intensified in 1964. A restroom int he Institute of Clinical and Experimental Oncology. Some 15 kilometers from the centre of Moscow, this Institute comes under the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.
Copyright:
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Copyright Information:
World Health Organization; World Health Organization website
Extent:
1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101436901 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013801
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436901