Методологическая разработка по английскому языку по теме «A pioneer of refractive surgery»

МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ РАЗРАБОТКА ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

ПО ТЕМЕ «A PIONEER OF REFRACTIVE SURGERY»

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·         What is glaucoma?

·         Is this disease curable?

·         Who is a pioneer of glaucoma surgery?

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Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fedorov (8 August 1927 – 2 June 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, politician, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is considered to be a pioneer of refractive surgery. He was also one of the candidates in the 1996 Russian presidential election, running as a member of the Party of Workers' Self-Government.

Fedorov was born in Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to ethnic Russian parents. Fedorov graduated from Rostov Medical Institute in Rostov on Don, and then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast.

In the 1970s he developed the surgical technique he is most famous for, the radial keratotomy, to change the shape of the cornea and cure myopia. In 1986, Fedorov designed the first posterior chamber phakic IOL in the "collar-button" or "mushroom" configuration and manufactured the pIOL from silicone. In 1980 he became the head of the Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery. In 1988 he founded the Fedorov Eye Microsurgery Complex. In 1994 he endorsed and wrote the foreword to the American textbook (Radial and Astigmatic Keratotomy) by Dr. Spencer Thornton in which Thornton taught a surgical technique derived from but markedly different from the Fedorov technique.

Considered to be on the center-left of the Russian political spectrum, Fedorov was the founder and leader of the Party of Workers' Self-Government, which was one of the most influential social-democratic movements in Russia during the 1990s.

In 1994 Fedorov had described his political objective by stating, "I want peasants to own farms, workers to own factories, physicians to own clinics, and everyone to pay a 30% tax, and the rest is theirs."

Fedorov ran as the candidate of the Party of Workers' Self-Government in the 1996 Russian presidential election.

Returning from an academic conference in 2000, Fedorov died in the crash of his clinic's four-seater helicopter on the outskirts of Moscow.

In 2013, a profile of Dr. Fedorov was included in a book called Saving Sight: An eye surgeon's look at life behind the mask and the heroes who changed the way we see, by Andrew Lam, M.D.

Answer the questions:

1.       Who was Svyatoslav Fedorov?

2.       What is his contribution to medicine?

3.       Where did he study?

4.       Where did he work after the institute?

5.       What is his surgical technique?

6.       What did he found in 1986?

7.       What political party did he found?

8.       What was his political objective?

9.       How did he die?

10.   What book was a profile of Dr. Fedorov included?

Follow-up: Tell about new materials and inventions in medicine of Svyatoslav Fedorov.