Governing Habits - Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic

Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post-Soviet Russia.

Summary

Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post-Soviet Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Raikhel, Eugene A. Raikhel
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781501703126
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0312-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno; Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions