Background
DOBROKHOTOVA, Aleksandra was born in 1884 in Kineshma. Daughter of a teacher.
DOBROKHOTOVA, Aleksandra was born in 1884 in Kineshma. Daughter of a teacher.
1912 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow Higher Women's Courses.
After graduate intern, Morozov Children’s Hospital and assistant professor under P. V. Tsiklinskaya, Chair of Microbiology. 1921-1946 head, Department of Children’s Infections, Centr Institute of Mother and Child Care (now Institute of Pediatrics, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences). 1935-1950 also head, Chair of Pediatrics, 3rd Moscow Medical Institute.
Foreign 10 years chief pediatrician, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Health. Specialized in such infectious diseases as measles, whooping cough, dysentery and scarlet fever. Supervised writing of over 300 sci works.
Contributed to planning of state-sponsored measures against measles, whooping cough and other infections, which led to a reduction in child mortality. Also contributed to the solution of important theoretical, practical and organizational problems connected with the treatment of children's diseases, notably scarlet fever. Studied the relation between age and the course of infection.
Presidium member, Learned Councils, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Minister of Health. Chairman, Acute Infections Section, AntiEpidemic Committee. Deputy chairman. Pediatric Commission, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Health.
Chairman, Problems Commission on Children's Infections. Member, Bureau of Clinical Medical, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. Company-ed, pediatrics section, Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia).
Trained numerous pediatricians and infcctionists. Wrote over 150 sci and popular works on pediatrics and the clinical aspects, therapy and prevention of children's infections.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.