Accumulation by dispossession and public-private biomedical pluralism in Romanian health care
Stan, SabinaORCID: 0000-0003-1602-0519 and Toma, Valentin-VeronORCID: 0000-0002-2342-8240
(2018)
Accumulation by dispossession and public-private biomedical pluralism in Romanian health care.
Medical Anthropology, 38
(1).
pp. 85-99.
ISSN 0145-9740
Neoliberal reforms in health care are an accumulation by dispossession. In examining this in Romania, we show that neoliberal reforms led to an uneven landscape of public and private care. We document how patients variously situated in Romanian society respond to this situation, and demonstrate the instability of their strategies—restraining from formal care, lifting-off from public care and hooking-up to private care. Public– private biomedical pluralism proves to be detrimental to vulnerable and better-off patients alike.
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Item Type:
Article (Published)
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Romania; biomedical pluralism; dispossession; health care; inequalities of access; neoliberalism
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Funders:
Postdoctoral Research Award from Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Research Career Start Grant from DCU, Ireland, Royal Irish Academy Mobility Grant, Research Fellowship from the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, European Research Council grant “Labour Politics and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime” [number 725240].
ID Code:
23392
Deposited On:
31 May 2019 09:48 by
Sabina Stan
. Last Modified 06 Feb 2020 04:30