Tanja Bukovčan
Biographic Data
| ID | 834087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanja Bukovčan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Bukovčan |
| SIGNATURE | BUKOVČAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1970-8044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At Home With Medical Anthropology in the Former Yugoslavia: Between Socialist Legacies and Neoliberal Realities
The article traces the development of medical anthropology in the former Yugoslav region, highlighting how the discipline has evolved through the legacies of social medicine and socialist self-management and, in recent decades, as a response to neoliberal trends in healthcare. The authors understand this region as a site of epistemic resistance and creativity, where scholars respond to shifting healthcare landscapes by rethinking the boundaries b…
Tolerated Pains, Ignored Sorrows: Domestic Violence as Structural Violence with Cultural Continuity
In the last few decades, awareness has been raised about the persistence and increase of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. The initial hypothesis developed here is that toward those forms of violence linked to the most intimate sphere – home – we, as a society, practice spatiotemporal “distancing,” thus allowing for this structural and cultural violence to continue. This paper aims to take up this contemporary theoretical premise i…
Expensive Health: Health-seeking Behaviours in Diversified Medical Markets
This article analyses how the metamorphosis of a state-funded healthcare system into a market-oriented system in Croatia since the 1990s has influenced the health-seeking behaviour of patients. Through in-depth interviews, patients were asked to identify their satisfaction with various health services and providers. Their answers reveal a complex narrative setup in which the possibility to select another healthcare therapy or provider was linked …
Advocacy and Activism in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research: A Croatian Example
Expensive Health: Health-seeking Behaviours in Diversified Medical Markets
This article analyses how the metamorphosis of a state-funded healthcare system into a market-oriented system in Croatia since the 1990s has influenced the health-seeking behaviour of patients. Through in-depth interviews, patients were asked to identify their satisfaction with various health services and providers. Their answers reveal a complex narrative setup in which the possibility to select another healthcare therapy or provider was linked …
Advocacy and Activism in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research: A Croatian Example
Advocacy and Activism in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research: A Croatian Example
Tolerated Pains, Ignored Sorrows: Domestic Violence as Structural Violence with Cultural Continuity
In the last few decades, awareness has been raised about the persistence and increase of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. The initial hypothesis developed here is that toward those forms of violence linked to the most intimate sphere – home – we, as a society, practice spatiotemporal “distancing,” thus allowing for this structural and cultural violence to continue. This paper aims to take up this contemporary theoretical premise i…
Expensive Health: Health-seeking Behaviours in Diversified Medical Markets
This article analyses how the metamorphosis of a state-funded healthcare system into a market-oriented system in Croatia since the 1990s has influenced the health-seeking behaviour of patients. Through in-depth interviews, patients were asked to identify their satisfaction with various health services and providers. Their answers reveal a complex narrative setup in which the possibility to select another healthcare therapy or provider was linked …
At Home With Medical Anthropology in the Former Yugoslavia: Between Socialist Legacies and Neoliberal Realities
The article traces the development of medical anthropology in the former Yugoslav region, highlighting how the discipline has evolved through the legacies of social medicine and socialist self-management and, in recent decades, as a response to neoliberal trends in healthcare. The authors understand this region as a site of epistemic resistance and creativity, where scholars respond to shifting healthcare landscapes by rethinking the boundaries b…
Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social science (2 works)