Health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings: navigating uncertainties

"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "1: Introduction. Dealing with Multiple Uncertainties in Post-Soviet Health, Technologies, and Politics" -- " Understanding the Relations of Health, Technologies, and Politics: Insights from STS" -- " Post-Soviet Transformations: Contradictions of a 'Transition' to Democracy and Markets" -- " (Caring for) People's Health in Times of Societal Turmoil" -- " New Uncertainties in Post-Soviet Science and Technology" -- " Navigating New Uncertainties in Everyday Life: Insights from Informality Studies" -- " Outline of the Book" -- " Part 1 'Mediating Uncertainties: Struggling with Conflicting Demands'" -- " Part 2 'Transforming Uncertainties: Negotiating New Practices'" -- "References" -- "Part I: Mediating Uncertainties: Struggling with Conflicting Demands" -- "2: Flirting with the Market: The Early Soviet Government and the Private Provision of Health Care, 1917–1932" -- " Introduction" -- " Early Soviet Health Care in Theory and Practice, 1917–1921" -- " Transition to the New Economic Policy and the Legalisation of Private Health Care" -- " Reforming Health Care in the 1920s: Urban and Rural Perspectives" -- " The Case of Petrograd/Leningrad" -- " Viewed with Suspicion" -- " 'The Class Principle' of Urban Health Care" -- " Rural Health Care and the Fight Against Znakharstvo" -- " The Decline of Private Health Care in Soviet Health Care" -- " Private Medical Practice in the Early Soviet Era: A Risky Innovation" -- "References" -- "3: (Re)Imagining the Nation? Boosting Local Drug Development in Contemporary Russia" -- " Introduction" -- " Understanding Cross-National Differences in Innovative Performance" -- " Uncertain Connections Between Pharmaceutical Innovation and Public Health