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Informal healthcare in contemporary Russia : sociographic essays on the post-Soviet infrastructure for alternative healing practices /
This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main characters are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. This encompasses a wide range of actors--from network marketing co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
IBIDEM-Verlag,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
v. 165. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Goals and tools of informal healthcare sociography
- 2. Agents in the markets for health products
- 3. Health from the garden, forest, and market : procuring and selling gifts of nature
- 4. Shadow and respectable alternative medicine : from healers to "complementary" specialists
- 5. Religious institutions : health concerns and commerce on health problems
- 6. The "informal healthcare" framework : information markets
- Appendix 1. Characteristics of the fieldwork in the Perm Territory
- Appendix 2. The religious landscape in the field research area.