Caring for Strangers: Aging, Traditional Medicine, and Collective Self-care in Post-socialist Russia

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 78-96

  Chudakova, Tatiana ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; care; lifestyle; post socialism; traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; DRAWING; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTIMACY; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PENSIONER; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF CARE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; CAREGIVER; EMPATHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; CAREGIVERS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; RUSSIA; SELF CARE;

EID: 84978639791     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12276     Document Type: Article

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