Ekaterina Borozdina
Biographic Data
| ID | 263524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaterina Borozdina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaterina |
| FAMILY NAME | Borozdina |
| SIGNATURE | BOROZDINA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4776-086X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Not Just a Mother’s Responsibility
The cultural emphasis on mothers’ individual responsibility and choice regarding their children’s health is often considered a key factor behind vaccine hesitancy, especially among the middle class in Western countries. Drawing on qualitative interviews with vaccine‐hesitant Russian mothers, this article broadens this discussion in two ways. First, it shifts the focus from women as autonomous decision‐makers to examining how they share vaccinatio…
Institutional inconsistencies and professionals' hidden institutional work in Russian pandemic-affected healthcare
In recent years, medical sociology has produced a significant amount of publications about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical care provision and healthcare professionalism around the globe. This study builds on this line of research by looking at a rarely discussed case of pandemic management-the case of Russia's centralized and state-dominated medical sector. In our analysis, we focus on the organizational level and the institutiona…
We are not sheep, I believe it is my choice
Scholars frequently associate vaccine hesitancy with the effects of neoliberalism, including healthism culture, intensive mothering ideology, and a decrease in institutional trust. This article contributes to the discussion by exploring this link outside of established democracies, in a society that diverges from liberal principles on both political and institutional levels. Using qualitative interviews with middle-class Russian mothers, I trace …
Instant messengers and health professionals' agency in Russian clinical settings
This research examines how Russian healthcare professionals use instant messengers (in particular, the group chat function on instant messengers) for work-related tasks. Based on qualitative interviews with Russian doctors and nurses conducted in spring 2020, the article explores how the informal implementation of instant messenger's group chat function facilitated and shaped health professionals' agency in two key areas of professional control: …
Medical professionals' agency and pharmaceuticalization
In the contemporary world pharmaceuticals have become a go-to answer to a growing number of questions. This process of pharmaceuticalization gives rise to a concern with the increasing influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians' decision-making. Critics suggest that companies' for-profit-interests might compromise the integrity of medical practice. This article employs qualitative research methodology to explore how Russian physicians…
Evidence-based medicine and physicians’ institutional agency in Russian clinical settings
In 1990s’ Russia, a wave of internationalization brought an evidence-based medical paradigm to Russian healthcare. Whilst there has been considerable critical commentary on the consequences of adopting this paradigm for medical decision-making, much of this relates to specific contexts in Europe, north America and Australasia, with little research addressing post-Soviet clinical practice. Drawing on semi-structured qualitative interviews with Rus…
Patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals
The article relies on qualitative research methods to investigate how by the means of institutional work healthcare professionals introduce patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals. Post-socialist healthcare is commonly viewed in academic literature as a highly centralized and state-controlled domain, where autonomy and agency of both patients and practitioners are significantly restricted. Our research contributes empirically to scho…
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care
Sociological scholars of healthcare professions are becoming increasingly aware of the organisational dimension of professionalism, including how professionals as institutional actors are exposed to and influence organisational transformation. By tracing the ground-level professional efforts of Russian doulas-a caring profession that has been plunged into a reforming health system-in this article I explore how meaning-making activities and profes…
International conference “Social sciences and health innovations
Current Gender and Sexuality Studies
Logics of health care and embodied trust in medical encounters
lt;p>The article analyzes different logics of organization of medical care in Russian obstetrics. The attention is focused on trust relationship between healthcare professionals and a mother to be, and particularly, on the bodily dimension of such trust. Many researchers note the crisis of institutional trust in Russian medicine. Within the frame of neo-liberal logic, i.e. the logic of choice, citizen-consumers (usually, from highly educated and …
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
Patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals
The article relies on qualitative research methods to investigate how by the means of institutional work healthcare professionals introduce patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals. Post-socialist healthcare is commonly viewed in academic literature as a highly centralized and state-controlled domain, where autonomy and agency of both patients and practitioners are significantly restricted. Our research contributes empirically to scho…
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care
Sociological scholars of healthcare professions are becoming increasingly aware of the organisational dimension of professionalism, including how professionals as institutional actors are exposed to and influence organisational transformation. By tracing the ground-level professional efforts of Russian doulas-a caring profession that has been plunged into a reforming health system-in this article I explore how meaning-making activities and profes…
Instant messengers and health professionals' agency in Russian clinical settings
This research examines how Russian healthcare professionals use instant messengers (in particular, the group chat function on instant messengers) for work-related tasks. Based on qualitative interviews with Russian doctors and nurses conducted in spring 2020, the article explores how the informal implementation of instant messenger's group chat function facilitated and shaped health professionals' agency in two key areas of professional control: …
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
International conference “Social sciences and health innovations
Current Gender and Sexuality Studies
Logics of health care and embodied trust in medical encounters
lt;p>The article analyzes different logics of organization of medical care in Russian obstetrics. The attention is focused on trust relationship between healthcare professionals and a mother to be, and particularly, on the bodily dimension of such trust. Many researchers note the crisis of institutional trust in Russian medicine. Within the frame of neo-liberal logic, i.e. the logic of choice, citizen-consumers (usually, from highly educated and …
Patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals
The article relies on qualitative research methods to investigate how by the means of institutional work healthcare professionals introduce patient-centered care in Russian maternity hospitals. Post-socialist healthcare is commonly viewed in academic literature as a highly centralized and state-controlled domain, where autonomy and agency of both patients and practitioners are significantly restricted. Our research contributes empirically to scho…
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care
Sociological scholars of healthcare professions are becoming increasingly aware of the organisational dimension of professionalism, including how professionals as institutional actors are exposed to and influence organisational transformation. By tracing the ground-level professional efforts of Russian doulas-a caring profession that has been plunged into a reforming health system-in this article I explore how meaning-making activities and profes…
Evidence-based medicine and physicians’ institutional agency in Russian clinical settings
In 1990s’ Russia, a wave of internationalization brought an evidence-based medical paradigm to Russian healthcare. Whilst there has been considerable critical commentary on the consequences of adopting this paradigm for medical decision-making, much of this relates to specific contexts in Europe, north America and Australasia, with little research addressing post-Soviet clinical practice. Drawing on semi-structured qualitative interviews with Rus…
Instant messengers and health professionals' agency in Russian clinical settings
This research examines how Russian healthcare professionals use instant messengers (in particular, the group chat function on instant messengers) for work-related tasks. Based on qualitative interviews with Russian doctors and nurses conducted in spring 2020, the article explores how the informal implementation of instant messenger's group chat function facilitated and shaped health professionals' agency in two key areas of professional control: …
Medical professionals' agency and pharmaceuticalization
In the contemporary world pharmaceuticals have become a go-to answer to a growing number of questions. This process of pharmaceuticalization gives rise to a concern with the increasing influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians' decision-making. Critics suggest that companies' for-profit-interests might compromise the integrity of medical practice. This article employs qualitative research methodology to explore how Russian physicians…
Institutional inconsistencies and professionals' hidden institutional work in Russian pandemic-affected healthcare
In recent years, medical sociology has produced a significant amount of publications about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical care provision and healthcare professionalism around the globe. This study builds on this line of research by looking at a rarely discussed case of pandemic management-the case of Russia's centralized and state-dominated medical sector. In our analysis, we focus on the organizational level and the institutiona…
We are not sheep, I believe it is my choice
Scholars frequently associate vaccine hesitancy with the effects of neoliberalism, including healthism culture, intensive mothering ideology, and a decrease in institutional trust. This article contributes to the discussion by exploring this link outside of established democracies, in a society that diverges from liberal principles on both political and institutional levels. Using qualitative interviews with middle-class Russian mothers, I trace …
Not Just a Mother’s Responsibility
The cultural emphasis on mothers’ individual responsibility and choice regarding their children’s health is often considered a key factor behind vaccine hesitancy, especially among the middle class in Western countries. Drawing on qualitative interviews with vaccine‐hesitant Russian mothers, this article broadens this discussion in two ways. First, it shifts the focus from women as autonomous decision‐makers to examining how they share vaccinatio…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Law (3 works)