LEADER 07402oam 2200649 c 450 001 9910972888703321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a9783838209708 010 $a3838209702 024 3 $a9783838269702 035 $a(CKB)3710000001064292 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276092 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5782768 035 $a(Perlego)773181 035 $a(ibidem)9783838269702 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001064292 100 $a20260102d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInformal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia $eSociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices /$fYulia Krasheninnikova, Andreas Umland, Vasily Vlassov 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) 225 0 $aSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society$v165 311 08$a9783838210308 311 08$a3838210301 311 08$a9783838269702 311 08$a3838269705 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Author's note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Goals and tools of informal healthcare sociography -- 1.1. Problem statement -- 1.2. Description model -- 1.3. "Informal healthcare" drivers -- 2 Agents in the markets for health products -- 2.1. "We are like Galileo-they burn us at the stake, but we continue promoting dietary supplements": Direct selling of health products -- 2.2. Latent functions of the healthcare institution: The case of pharmacies -- 2.3. Contemporary peddlers: Itinerant trade and peddling 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 -- 4.1. "People remember a certain Baba Vanga, so they will also remember me": Healers -- 4.2. Frontier zone: Ambivalent status, recognition problems and shadow practices of complementary and alternative medicine specialists -- 4.3. All diseases of the nerves: Psychotherapy as an alternative to orthodox medicine -- 5 Religious institutions: Health concerns and commerce on health problems -- 5.1. The attitude of religious organizations to conventional and alternative medicine -- 5.2. Treatment arsenal: Religious ceremonies, rituals, and practices to address health problems -- 5.3. Social service as a form of religions' participation in healthcare -- 5.4. Religious associations in the markets for health products -- 6 The "informal healthcare" framework: Information markets -- 6.1. Mass media -- 6.2. Information intermediaries -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Characteristics of the fieldwork in the Perm Territory -- Appendix 2. The religious landscape in the field research area -- References. 330 $aThis volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. A wide range of agents is described?from network marketing companies to 'folk' journals on health as well as healers, complementary medicine specialists, and religious organizations. Krasheninnikova?s book is based on rich empirical observations and avoids both positive and critical assessment of the analyzed phenomena. Her investigation pays particular attention to the legal, social, and economic status of informal healthcare providers. She demonstrates that these agents tend to flourish in bigger towns rather than in small settlements, where public healthcare is lacking. The study reveals the important role of institutions that are generally not related to alternative medicine, such as pharmacies, libraries, and church shops. The result is a vivid and thorough introduction to the world of self-medication and alternative healing in contemporary Russia. A special emphasis was made on the flexibility of boundaries between formal and informal healthcare due to the evolution of rules and regulations. 330 1 $a?As the author remarkably demonstrates, informal healthcare of the Russian province is a vast universe of people with their social institutions and networks that paradoxically combine rational approaches with irrational beliefs in miraculous cures ?? ?Alexander Nikulin, Director of the Center for Agrarian Studies, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 330 1 $a?The book provides conclusive evidence that the informal healthcare of provincial Russia, which successfully survives outside and between the market and the state, is one of the most flexible sectors of the informal economy and is extremely important for the majority of the Russian population.? ?Teodor Shanin, President, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 330 1 $a?I read the book with a degree of horror. It dispels the myth that alternative medicine is a substitute for the conventional one: where there is no conventional medicine, there is none at all. The book demonstrates yet again that traditional medicine is increasingly becoming business-focused rather than folk-based. [?] Moreover, informal techniques penetrate the formal healthcare system and merge with it. At the same time, although many practices involving breathing exercises, leech therapy, massage, etc. are not evidence-based, even I have nothing against them. In general, the book draws attention to numerous issues and highlights a maze of concerns that have to be dealt with. Measures to be adopted must not be purely restrictive; rather, they should be scientific and educational, in particular, based on telemedicine technology.? ?Pavel Vorobiev, Professor, Head of the Department of Hematology and Geriatrics, First Sechenov, Moscow State Medical University 330 1 $a?The book offers a fascinating account on the markets, agents, and infrastructures of informal health, which is defined as the diverse set of health-maintenance institutions and practices outside the scope of the formal health-care system. [?] Krasheninnikova?s study offers a valuable contribution to our understanding of public health in contemporary Russia as well as of the country?s sociology of informal institutions and practices.? ?The Russian Review (Vol. 77, No. 2), April 2018 330 1 $a?This approach is novel. It addresses an important void in the literature on CAM and other alternative forms of healing and healthcare that is generally unavailable. 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