Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective
Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective

Author: Susan Grant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 331944171X

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This collection compares Russian and Soviet medical workers – physicians, psychiatrists and nurses, and examines them within an international framework that challenges traditional Western conceptions of professionalism and professionalization through exploring how these ideas developed amongst medical workers in Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideology and everyday life are examined through analyses of medical practice while gender is assessed through the experience of women medical professionals and patients. Cross national and entangled history is explored through the prism of health care, with medical professionals crossing borders for a number of reasons: to promote the principles and advancements of science and medicine internationally; to serve altruistic purposes and support international health care initiatives; and to escape persecution. Chapters in this volume highlight the diversity of experiences of health care, but also draw attention to the shared concerns and issues that make science and medicine the subject of international discussion.

Decentralization In Health Care: Strategies And Outcomes
Decentralization In Health Care: Strategies And Outcomes

Author: Saltman, Richard

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 033521925X

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Exploring the capacity and impact of decentralization within European health care systems, this book examines both the theoretical underpinnings as well as practical experience with decentralization.

Report
Report

Author: United States. Public Health Mission to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Red Medicine
Red Medicine

Author: Arthur Newsholme

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1483194558

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Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia reviews the medical organization and administration in Soviet Russia. This book is organized into 24 chapters that particularly tackle the city of Moscow and Leningrad. It addresses the travels of the authors from Moscow to Georgia and the Crimea, providing an overview of the background of Russian life. Some of the topics covered in the book are the progress of Russia towards Communism; developments in the introduction of Communism; type of government of USSR; description of industrial conditions and health; features of agricultural conditions; state of religion, civil liberty, and law; and characteristics of home life, recreation, clubs, and education. Other chapters deal with the condition of women in Soviet Russia, state of marriage, and divorce. These topics are followed by discussions of the care of maternity, children and youths, as well as the treatment in residential and non-residential institutions. The final chapters describe the characteristics of medical practice and the general considerations on the medical care in large communities. The book can provide useful information to the historians, doctors, students, and researchers.

Revolutionary Medicine
Revolutionary Medicine

Author: P. Sean Brotherton

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-03-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0822352052

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An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings
Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings

Author: Olga Zvonareva

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2018-08-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319877358

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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 implications of their chosen navigation routes are. Contemporary societies are imbued with uncertainties, but the authors focus on settings where uncertainties multiply, making decisions, practises, and relations in everyday life precarious. Two worlds are brought into dialogue throughout the chapters of this book with the aim of facilitating mutual learning from one another - the world of science and technology studies (STS) and the high-income liberal democracies of the West, on one hand, and studies of post-socialism on the other. In so doing, this book encourages critical learning on ensuring the resilience of individual and societal health in situations of profound uncertainties. This timely collection will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and policy makes in the fields of sociology, biomedicine, political science and public and global health.