Zoya Mironova belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Zoya Mironova as Russian physician.
Zoya Mironova was born at Moscow in 1913. Her recorded nationality is Russia. She trained at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are orthopedics.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: USSR State Prize (1985), Order of Lenin (1980), Order of the Badge of Honour (1972) and Medal "For Labour Valour" (1960).
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Zoya Mironova died in 2008, aged 95. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- USSR State Prize — 1985
- Order of Lenin — 1980
- Order of the Badge of Honour — 1972
- Medal "For Labour Valour" — 1960
- Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" — 1944
- Fields: orthopedics
