The Cancer Within The Cancer Within
Medical Anthropology

The Cancer Within

Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania

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Beschreibung des Verlags

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.

 

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2022
13. Mai
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
238
Seiten
VERLAG
Rutgers University Press
GRÖSSE
16,6
 MB

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