Description: The central importance of reproductive health and abortion in the competition over Russia's political and cultural liberalization or nationalist revival
Brief description: Michele Rivkin-Fish is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Review Quotes: "Drawing on a rich set of ethnographic data and historical materials, this incredibly important book will be widely read across a number of fields: medical anthropology, medical sociology, science and technology studies, health studies, women's studies, Soviet/post-Soviet studies, and many others."
--Melissa L. Caldwell, author of Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia