摘要：The article considers socio-political aspects of the evolution of scientific medical societies of Great Britain and Russia in the XIX – XX centuries. The authors investigate different socio-political processes and effects of the formation of scientific medical societies of Great Britain and Russia in the XIX – XX centuries using the comparative and historical-genetic methods of scientific research. The rise of the most scientific medical societies in Great Britain happened during the period of the epidemics, urbanization and the reign of Queen Victory. The founders of the most of societies were the members of parliament, the representatives of medical profession of the United Kingdom. In the XX century, scientific medical societies of Great Britain united in The Royal Society of Medicine, and then got royal confession and support. Their progressive socio-medical ideas during the period of urbanization and epidemics were developed in Russian Empire, where progressive Russian doctors created the “Pirogov`s Society”. However, socio-political events of the period of Russian Revolution 1917 brought to the liquidation of Russian monarchy and this scientific medical society. Only after the disintegration of the USSR and communist system the “Pirogov`s Society” was reestablished in Russia.
