We congratulate Anastasia Novkunskaya and the staff of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Medical Studies and wish them a smooth implementation of the project.

The book is called "The Birth of the Patient: Multiple Entities of Newborns in Russian Neonatal Care". Analyzing documents, semi-structured as well as expert interviews with healthcare professionals, focus groups and employing participant observation and self-observation methodologies, Anastasia Novkunskaya , Artemy Minakov and Anna Klepikova examine the structure of the neonatal care system using the example of one of the Russian regions.

The expert will speak at the session “How women are fighting for their rights and social opportunities, from the capital to small towns”.

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism. The chapters consider multiple perspectives and interactions between women and professionals and the structural and institutional pressures they face when striving for better conditions and treatment.