The Cancer Within

Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania

Cristina A. Pop (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2959-6 (ISBN)

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The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. 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.

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.

CRISTINA A. POP is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Systemic Contingencies
Part I: 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 One.
3. Beyond Rationalities
Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities
4. Dismantling Medicine
Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two.
5. The Other Hospital
6. Locating Corruption
Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	16 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-2959-0 / 1978829590
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2959-6 / 9781978829596
Zustand	Neuware