Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings Navigating Uncertainties /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zvonareva, Olga (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Popova, Evgeniya (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Horstman, Klasien (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Social policy.; Management.; Industrial management.; Economic sociology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Medical Sociology.; Social Policy.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implic...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction. Dealing With Multiple Uncertainties In Post-Soviet Health, Technologies, And Politics; Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman
• Chapter 2. Flirting With The Market. The Early Soviet Government And The Private Provision Of Health Care, 1917-1932; Pavel Vasilyev
• Chapter 3. (Re)Imagining The Nation? Boosting Local Drug Development In Contemporary Russia; Olga Zvonareva
• Chapter 4. Risky Economies: Innovation Of Medical Devices In Russia; Evgenia Popova
• Chapter 5. Medico-Economic Standards In Russia. Balancing Legal Requirements And Patients Needs; Alena Kamenshchikova
• Chapter 6. Introducing 'Natural' Childbirth In Russian Hospitals. Midwives' Institutional Work; Ekaterina Borozdina
• Chapter 7. Ova Exchange Practises At A Moscow Fertility Clinic: Gift Or Commodity?; Alexandra Kurlenkova
• Chapter 8. Innovating Health-Care Governance In Ukraine: Formal And Informal Practises; Tetiana Stepurko, Paolo Carlo Belli
• Chapter 9. Radiation Science After The Cold War. The Politics Of Measurements, Risks, And Compensation In Kazakhstan; Susanne Bauer
• Epilogue; Klasien Horstman, Olga Zvonareva.