Pregnancy and Birth in Russia: The Struggle for Good Care

ISBN-13: 9780367688950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Daria Litvina

Opis

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism.

Spis treści

1. Introducing the struggle for "good care" in Russian maternity care  2. "Sociologists in white": methodological reflections on fieldwork in maternity care  3. Maternity care in Russia: the Soviet legacy and post-Soviet reforms  4. Childbearing women in Russia: consumer agency and the negotiation of "good care"  5. Providers negotiating multifaceted "good care"  6. Struggling for "good care:" the professional as political  Conclusions: struggling with and within the System for "good" maternity care