Organization of medical and sanitary-hygienic services for indigenous peoples of the European North in the 19th – early 20th centuries: as an element of the acculturation process

the article examines the features of the organization of medical care in the late 19th – early 20th centuries among the indigenous peoples of the European north: Karelians, Komi, Komi-Permyaks, Vepsians, Sami through the prism of the acculturation process. The author examines the problem of imperial acculturation influence on the lives of the indigenous peoples of the North through the organization of medical care. Changes in this area in connection with the zemstvo reform, the reaction of indigenous peoples to the gradual spread of state medicine in the Russian Empire are revealed. It is noted that, despite a number of successes in zemstvo medicine, medical care was practically inaccessible to most of the peoples of the north. They continued to turn to healers and use traditional medicine. Although such measures were partially successful, epidemics and other diseases occurred among the peoples in question.

acculturation, medical care, indigenous peoples of the North, hygiene, zemstvo medicine in the northern provinces, diseases of the peoples of the North