Health In Transition Annual Conference on Health

and Healthcare in the Post-Socialist World 2012 Programme Preliminary Programme for the 2012 Health in Transition Conference
Jump to Presenters Biographies Thursday, 7 June 2012 Panel 1: Bodily experiences Chair/Discussant: Maryna Bazylevych (Luther College, USA) Oral presentations: Alexandru Dincovici (NSPSA National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest, Romania): Pain communities and uninstitutionalized health practices: a case study. Andrei Mihail (NSPSA National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest, Romania): Life after transplant: Coping with a new life as an organ recipient in Romania. Hubert Wierciski (Warsaw University, Poland): Kinship and experiences of cancer in Poland

Panel 2: Negotiating mental health and healthcare Chair/Discussant: Michael Rasell (University of Lincoln, UK) Oral presentations: Jaroslav Klepal (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): Pills, Suicides, Tears: Enacting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among War Veterans in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gerard A. Weber (CUNY, USA): Other Than a Thank-You, There is Nothing Else I Can Give: The Social and Historical Context of Stress among Working-Class Pensioners in PostSocialist Galai, Romania Peter Locke (Princeton University, USA): Surviving the aftermath: trauma, resilience, and chronic insecurity in postwar Sarajevo.

Panel 3: Reproduction and its moralities Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth King (Yale University, USA) Oral presentations: Cristina A. Pop (Tulane University, USA):Rationalizing births in post-Socialist Romania: surgical sterilization during the second C-section. Jackie Kirkham (University of Edinburgh, UK): Whats morality got to do with it? A consideration of the role of morality in the development and contestation of sexual and reproductive health services in Romania and Moldova. Maria Wgrzynowska (Dublin City University, Ireland): Though luck, but this is an investment in my peace of mind: empowerment and womens healthcare in Poland.

Keynote speech by Prof. ERIN KOCH (University of Kentucky): Re-conceptualizing the bio- and the social: Shifting contours of medicine, postsocialism, and ethnography. Friday, 8 June 2012 Panel 4: Trust and power in medical encounters Chair/Discussant: Erin Koch (University of Kentucky, USA) Oral presentations: Maryna Y. Bazylevych (Luther College, USA): Hippocratic into hypocritical: Reinterpretation of the Hippocratic Oath in Ukraine. Zane Linde (University of Latvia, Latvia): Fight against invisible enemies: Patient safety in Latvia. Athena Peglidou (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece): Fakelakia:Offerings, gifts or bribes? Questions of power, resistance and autonomy in the contemporary Greek medical context. Distributed papers: Ana Andrejic (Faculty of Philosophy, Nis, Serbia): Public versus private health care in Romania: Facing a two-tier health care system? Panel 5: Expert knowledge and medical subjectivities Chair/Discussant: Gerard Weber (CUNY, USA) Oral presentations:

Jennifer Carroll (University of Washington, USA): Methadone as medicine: The biomedicalization of drug addiction in Ukrainian substitution therapy programs. Michael Rasell (University of Lincoln, UK): Disability, bureaucratic objectification and the medical gaze in contemporary Russia. Razvan Ionescu-Tugui (NSPSPA, Bucharest, Romania): Love, support and kindness for all: Medical subjectivities in a health care direct selling company.

Panel 6: Inequalities and the limits of care Chair/Discussant: Jackie Kirkham (University of Edinburgh, UK) Oral presentations: Jonathan J. Stillo (CUNY, USA): We are the Losers of Socialism: Tuberculosis, social cases and the limits of care in Romania. Urula Lipovec ebron (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Access to public health system of Slovenia: Paradoxes, dilemmas and strategies. Elizabeth J. King (Yale University, USA): Structural barriers for female sex workers access to health care services in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Panel 7: Healthcare in a neoliberal world Chair/Discussant: Ann Dill (Brown University, USA) Oral presentations: Tanja Bukovcan (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Money for something? An ethnography of the shift of medical systems in contemporary Croatia. Ana Bazac (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania): Significances of an alternative health care: the health column in a Romanian postcommunist popular magazine. Sabina Stan (Dublin City University, Ireland): Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: social mobility and the marketisation of healthcare services in Europe. Valentin-Veron Toma (Romanian Academy, Romania) & Tommaso De Santis (University College London, UK): Medical Travel to Vienna: Trustworthiness, Trust and Distrust and their Impact on Romanian Patients Choices in Matters of Healthcare. Distributed papers:

Alissa Tolstokorova (Centre for Research on Family and Gender, Kiev): hanges in Ukrainian Care Diamond Throughout Post-Socialist Transition: All Girls Best Friends? Sergiu Sprincean (University of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Republic of Moldova): Paternalism of social-political pressure groups in the public healthcare system of Republic of Moldova. Liliana Dumitrache, Daniela Dumbraveanu, and Mariana Nae (University of Bucharest, Romania): Public versus private health care in Romania: facing a two-tier health care system? Bori Fernezelyi (Central European University): From the Engagement to the Divorce of Knowledge and Policy: Hungarian DRG system as a knowledge-based regulation tool Closing reflections: PROF. VINTILA MIHAILESCU (SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania)