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.

Professor of the Department of Sociology, EUSP, Dr. Anna Temkina has co-authored an article written by the WHO Regional Office for Europe expert group “Cultural contexts of health and well-being” (CCH). The article has been published by Nature Human Behaviour after the virtual expert group meeting on June 12, 2020.

The New York Times newspaper published an article about how people around the world start keeping their diaries with their experiences of living through a pandemic. Their diaries are told in words and pictures: pantry inventories, window views, questions about the future, concerns about the present. Some diarists record statistics: the number of infections, the number of deaths. Others keep diaries that are part shopping list, part doodle pad.