Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings

1. Introduction. Dealing with Multiple Uncertainties in Post-Soviet Health, Technologies, and Politics
Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman

Part I. Mediating Uncertainties: Struggling with Conflicting Demands

2. Flirting with the Market: The Early Soviet Government and the Private Provision of Health Care, 1917–1932
Pavel Vasilyev

3. (Re)Imagining the Nation? Boosting Local Drug Development in Contemporary Russia
Olga Zvonareva

4. Risky Economies: Innovation of Medical Devices in Russia
Evgeniya Popova

5. Medico-Economic Standards in Russia: Balancing Legal Requirements and Patients Needs
Alena Kamenshchikova

Part II. Transforming Uncertainties: Negotiating New Practices

6. Introducing ‘Natural’ Childbirth in Russian Hospitals. Midwives’ Institutional Work
Ekaterina Borozdina

7. Ova Exchange Practises at a Moscow Fertility Clinic: Gift or Commodity?
Alexandra Kurlenkova

8. Innovating Health-Care Governance in Ukraine: Formal and Informal Practises
Tetiana Stepurko, Paolo Carlo Belli

9. Radiation Science After the Cold War. The Politics of Measurement, Risk, and Compensation in Kazakhstan
Susanne Bauer

Keywords: Social Sciences, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Sociology, Social Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology