{"product_id":"the-cancer-within-reproduction-cultural-transformation-and-health-care-in-romania-9781978829596","title":"The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Within\u003c\/i\u003e examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Within \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceausescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era.\" -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written and theoretically inspired, this vivid and pathbreaking ethnography shows how history continues to haunt Romanian women’s sexual and reproductive lives, and how post-socialist healthcare provides no panacea for a cervical cancer crisis and accompanying HPV vaccine hesitancy. \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Within\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for those interested in gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, as well as medicine in the post-socialist era.\" -- Marcia Inhorn * author of America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Within \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceauşescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era.\" -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson\u003cbr\u003e Note on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Systemic Contingencies\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Women’s, Men’s and God’s Will\u003cbr\u003e 1. ”We All Descend from Communism”\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reproductive Invisibility\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One.\u003cbr\u003e 3. Beyond Rationalities\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dismantling Medicine\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two.\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Other Hospital\u003cbr\u003e 6. Locating Corruption\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415261520215,"sku":"9781978829596","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cancer-within-reproduction-cultural-transformation-and-health-care-in-romania-9781978829596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}