Russia's maternal health crisis and postsocialist transition examined through ethnographic observation in clinics and hospitals.

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In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people mad