Rejecting Professional Medicine in Contemporary Russia
The rejection of professional medical care (except for acute cases demanding urgent or specific treatment) has become common in contemporary Russia (Maximova 2002, Rose 2000)….
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Polina Aronson is a post-graduate student in sociology at St. Petersburg State University and was formerly a DAAD exchange student at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Central European University recently awarded her course, "The Sociology of Medicine," taught at Smolny College of Liberal Arts in St. Petersburg, a Curricular Development Grant. She plans to continue her research at the University of Warwick (UK).