Title:

Michael DeBakey with Russian colleagues

Date:

[1958]

Description:

Michael DeBakey is standing fifth from the left.. DeBakey visited the Soviet Union from December 15-20, 1958, at a time when the United States and USSR were locked in a deadly arms race, the Cold War. People lived in fear of nuclear annihilation, anticommunist politicians created an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia in the United States government, and the people of each country looked upon each other with mounting hostility. DeBakey's visit, enabled by Boris Petrovsky, Minister of Health, and Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, was nothing short of remarkable. DeBakey continued to foster medical collaboration with the Soviet Union, making a number of subsequent visits from the 1960s to the 1990s, when he advised President Boris Yeltsin's physicians about his coronary bypass surgery.

Location:

Box: 30

Rights:

Courtesy of Katrin DeBakey.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Russia

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Michael E. DeBakey to President Richard M. Nixon, 1973
Letter from Michael E. DeBakey to President Richard M. Nixon, 1973
Letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Michael E. DeBakey, 1973
Diary of My Trip to the USSR, 1959

Legacy ID:

FJBBFX

NLM ID:

101743405X80

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X80

Story Section:

DeBakey as Medical Statesman