The Cancer Within : : Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania / / Cristina A. Pop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Pop, Cristina A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Manderson, Lenore,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 16 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY --; INTRODUCTION. Systemic Contingencies --; Part 1 WOMEN’S, MEN’S, AND GOD’S WILL --; 1 “WE ALL DESCEND FROM COMMUNISM” --; 2 REPRODUCTIVE INVISIBILITY --; INTERLUDE Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey (Part 1) --; 3 BEYOND RATIONALITIES --; Part 2 MEDICINE AND ITS MORALITIES --; 4 DISMANTLING MEDICINE --; INTERLUDE Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey (Part 2) --; 5 THE OTHER HOSPITAL --; 6 LOCATING CORRUPTION --; CONCLUSION The Space between Informed and Non-Informed Refusal --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978829619; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766479
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978829619?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cristina A. Pop.

The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer.