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The cancer within: reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania / Cristina A. Pop.
Penn Museum Library RC280.U8 P66 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pop, Cristina Alexandra, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Medical anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uterus--Cancer--Romania.
- Uterus.
- Cervix uteri--Cancer--Romania.
- Cervix uteri.
- Women's health services--Romania.
- Women's health services.
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms.
- Women's Health Services.
- Anthropology, Medical.
- Romania.
- Medical Subjects:
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms.
- Women's Health Services.
- Anthropology, Medical.
- Romania.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 207 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I WOMEN'S, MEN'S, AND CGOD'S WILL
- 1. "We All Descend from Communism"
- 2. Reproductive Invisibility
- Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey (Part 1)
- 3. Beyond Rationalities
- pt. II MEDICINE AND ITS MORALITIES
- 4. Dismantling Medicine
- Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey (Part 2)
- 5. The Other Hospital
- 6. Locating Corruption.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781978829589
- 1978829582
- 9781978829596
- 1978829590
- OCLC:
- 1266205613
- Publisher Number:
- 99992327206
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