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Informal healthcare in contemporary Russia : sociographic essays on the post-Soviet infrastructure for alternative healing practices
- Title
- Informal healthcare in contemporary Russia : sociographic essays on the post-Soviet infrastructure for alternative healing practices / Yulia Krasheninnikova ; with a foreword by Vasily Vlassov.
- Author
- Krasheninnikova, Yulia
- Publication
- Stuttgart : IBIDEM-Verlag, 2017.
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- Description
- xv, 281 pages; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society (SPPS), 1614-3515 ; v.165
- Uniform Title
- Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 165.
- Subjects
- Medical care
- Social medicine
- Public health
- Medical care > Russia (Federation)
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Social medicine > Russia (Federation)
- Medicine
- Public health > Russia (Federation)
- Russia (Federation)
- Delivery of Health Care
- (Produktform)Paperback / softback
- Complementary Therapies
- Healthcare
- Russia
- (VLB-WN)2696: Taschenbuch / Medizin/Ganzheitsmedizin
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword by Vasily Vlassov -- Author's note -- Acknowledgements -- Goals and tools of informal healthcare sociography -- Problem statement -- Description model -- "Informal healthcare" drivers -- Agents in the markets for health products -- "We are like Galileo-they burn us at the stake, but we continue promoting dietary supplements" : direct selling of health products -- Latent functions of the healthcare institution : the case of pharmacies -- Contemporary peddlers : Itinerant trade and peddling health products -- Health from the garden, forest, and market : procuring and selling gifts of nature -- Shadow and respectable alternative medicine : from healers to "complementary" specialists -- "People remember a certain baba vanga, so they will also remember me" : healers -- Frontier zone : ambivalent status, recognition problems and shadow practices of complementary and alternative medicine specialists -- All diseases of the nerves : psychotherapy as an alternative to orthodox medicine -- Religious institutions : health concerns and commerce on health problems -- The attitude of religious organizations to conventional and alternative medicine -- Treatment arsenal : religious ceremonies, rituals, and practices to address health problems -- Social service as a form of religions' participation in healthcare -- Religious associations in the markets for health products -- The "informal healthcare" framework : information markets -- Mass media -- Information intermediaries -- Afterword -- Appendices -- References.
- ISBN
- 9783838209708
- 3838209702
- 9783838210308 (canceled/invalid)
- 3838210301 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocn965760786
- 965760786
- SCSB-5884614
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries