Autore	Krasheninnikova Yulia
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Stuttgart : , : IBIDEM-Verlag, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xv, 281 pages)
Disciplina	362.10947
Collana	Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society
Soggetto topico	Medical care - Russia (Federation) Social medicine - Russia (Federation) Public health - Russia (Federation)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910493202303321

Autore	Krasheninnikova Yulia
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hannover, : ibidem, 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xv, 281 pages)
Disciplina	362.10947
Collana	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Soggetto topico	Russia Medicine health care
ISBN	9783838209708 3838209702
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- 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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910972888703321