The Cancer Within : : Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania /

The Cancer Within : : Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania / / 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 p...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.) :; 16 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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