| Description |
1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Series |
Medical Anthropology Ser |
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Medical Anthropology Ser
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| Contents |
"We All Descend from Communism" -- Reproductive Invisibility -- Interlude : Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One. -- Beyond Rationalities -- Dismantling Medicine -- Interlude : Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two. -- The Other Hospital -- Locating Corruption |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
cancer, cervical cancer, Romania, public health, women's health, health care, cancer prevention, post-communist medicine, patriarchal, health care providers, policy makers, religion, historical trauma, pronatalism, Romanian women, reproductive medicine, neoliberal reforms, neoliberalism, medical care, HPV vaccination, patriarchy, preventive medicine, Communism, Medicine, corruption, tumor, cervix, human papillomavirus, STD, immune system, screening test, cancer treatment, paternalism, social welfare, post-communism, Post-Communist Political Economies |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Romania
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Social medicine -- Romania
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Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Social aspects -- Romania
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Women's health services -- Romania
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Women's health services.
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Medical anthropology.
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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
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Women's Health Services
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Anthropology, Medical
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Medical anthropology
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Social medicine
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Women's health services
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| SUBJECT |
Romania https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012383 |
| Subject |
Romania
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1978829612 |
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9781978829619 |
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1978829604 |
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9781978829602 |
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