A01=Anastasia Novkunskaya
A01=Anna Klepikova
A01=Artemiy Minakov
Author_Anastasia Novkunskaya
Author_Anna Klepikova
Author_Artemiy Minakov
Category=JHB
Eastern Europe
emotional work
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Foucault
healthcare
NICU
pediatrics
post-soviet states
Russia
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- ISBN 9781666937404
- Weight: 517g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the complex ways in which a newborn patient is constructed, perceived, and treated within the medical context. It examines how the patients’ social position is shaped by the institutional settings in which they are situated and how their identity is influenced by various factors, including biomedical, social, economic, political, and bureaucratic processes. By focusing on the newborn as a physical, social, symbolic, and even an abstract statistical unit, highlighting their role in shaping economic and symbolic performance indicators for medical institutions and drawing on prolonged fieldwork and diverse empirical data, this book gives voice to the newborn voiceless and acknowledges the difficult labor of neonatal medical professionals.
Anastasia Novkunskaya is associate professor in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the European University at Saint-Petersburg.
Artemiy Minakov is research fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the European University at Saint-Petersburg.
Anna Klepikova is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg.
