The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania

by Cristina Alexandra Pop and Cristina A. Pop

The Cancer Within 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978829590
• ISBN13: 9781978829596
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher