Scholar to investigate history of medicine in the Gulag

An academic has received a grant of £101,000 to investigate the history of medicine in Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin's concentration camps.

Dr Dan Healey from Swansea University is hoping to show how doctors and medicine were integral to the labour camps from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The three-year project begins in October and will give Dr Dealey the chance to explore the camps' archives.

Around 20 million people passed through the camps and countless numbers died.

Dr Healey's project will be entitled Medicine in the Gulag Archipelago and will be carried out in collaboration with Russian academic Dr Kirill Rossianov.

The Gulag was the network of concentration camps, which were located in the most remote regions of the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin, from 1929-1953....