Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings

Olga Zvonareva, is a Research Fellow in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She also holds visiting position in Siberian State Medical University and leads the Social Studies of Health and Medicine track in the Centre for Policy Analysis and Studies of Technology, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia. Evgeniya Popova, is Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis and Studies of Technology, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia. Klasien Horstman, is a Professor of Philosophy of Public Health and leading the research program Inequity, Participation, Globalisation of the Care and Public Health Research Institute CAPHRI, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

• Chapter 1. Introduction. Dealing With Multiple Uncertainties In Post-Soviet Health, Technologies, And Politics; Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman.- Chapter 2. Flirting With The Market. The Early Soviet Government And The Private Provision Of Health Care, 1917-1932; Pavel Vasilyev.- Chapter 3. (Re)Imagining The Nation? Boosting Local Drug Development In Contemporary Russia; Olga Zvonareva.- Chapter 4. Risky Economies: Innovation Of Medical Devices In Russia; Evgenia Popova.- Chapter 5. Medico-Economic Standards In Russia. Balancing Legal Requirements And Patients Needs; Alena Kamenshchikova.- Chapter 6. Introducing ‘Natural’ Childbirth In Russian Hospitals. Midwives’ Institutional Work; Ekaterina Borozdina.- Chapter 7. Ova Exchange Practises At A Moscow Fertility Clinic: Gift Or Commodity?; Alexandra Kurlenkova.- Chapter 8. Innovating Health-Care Governance In Ukraine: Formal And Informal Practises; Tetiana Stepurko, Paolo Carlo Belli.- Chapter 9. Radiation Science After The Cold War.The Politics Of Measurements, Risks, And Compensation In Kazakhstan; Susanne Bauer.- Epilogue; Klasien Horstman, Olga Zvonareva.