Tatiana Chudakova

Biographic Data

ID96407
NAMETatiana Chudakova
GIVEN NAMESTatiana
FAMILY NAMEChudakova
SIGNATURECHUDAKOVA T
AFFILIATIONSTufts University
ORCID0009-0007-0375-4990
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Viral Drugs and Antiviral Politics: Rumor, Shortage, and Just-in-Time Pharmaceutical Efficacies in Russia

    Tatiana ChudakovaARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    This article focuses on the social biography of the Soviet-made antiviral pharmaceutical “Arbidol” ( umifenovir ), used in Russia as a popular medication to treat influenza. Despite doubts cast on its efficacy, the drug remained a staple for treating upper respiratory infections in Russia. When H1N1 arrived in Siberia in 2009, a shortage of medicine on pharmacy shelves caused by Arbidol’s rapid bulk purchasing led to a social outcry, as well as t…

  • A Chto Sluchilos: Ethnographies of Holding It Together

    Open AccessTatiana Chudakova, Cassandra Hartblay et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review2023

    This essay by sociocultural anthropologists of Russia working in the North American academy considers rupture in three ways. First, we review rupture as a theoretical concept that ethnographers have both used and contested in making sense of the end of the Soviet Union, to inform our reading of the present moment. Second, we think about what political and social relationships the war has made speakable and for whom, at a time when the possibiliti…

  • Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China, written by Liz P.Y. Chee

    Tatiana ChudakovaARTICLEInner Asia2023

    In her remarkable history of the medicalisation of animal-derived components in Chinese medicine over the course of the second part of the twentieth century, Liz Chee constructs a subtle, incisive and often surprising account of pharmaceutical and medical reasoning, while complicating commonly held oppositional narratives that pit 'Western biomedicine' against other medical traditions, traditional Chinese medicine among them.Focusing on the incor…

  • Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part V

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part IV

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part III

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

    Medical Anthropology QuarterlyEarly View Opinion Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part III Laura A. Meek, Corresponding Author Laura A. Meek [email protected] Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Corresponding author: Laura A. Meek Email: [email protected] Abigail H. Neely Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAbigail H. Neely, Corresponding Author Abigail H. Neely [e…

  • Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part II

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Unsettled Ontologies and Capitalist Spirits

    Open AccessTatiana ChudakovaARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023References: 3

  • Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part I

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

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

    Open AccessTatiana ChudakovaARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2017Cited by: 11References: 52

    This article explores how aging patients in Russia assemble strategies of care in the face of commercialization of medical services and public health discourses and initiatives aimed at improving the population's lifestyle habits. By focusing on how the formation of pensioner publics intersects with the health-seeking trajectories of elderly patients, it tracks an emerging ethic of collective self-care-a form of therapeutic collectivity that chal…

  • Plant matters: Buddhist medicine and economies of attention in postsocialist Siberia

    Open AccessTatiana ChudakovaARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2017Cited by: 10References: 23

    Buddhist medicine (sowa rigpa) in Siberia frames the natural world as overflowing with therapeutic potencies: "There is nothing in the world that isn't a medicine," goes a common refrain. An exploration of sowa rigpa practitioners' committed relations with the plants they make into medicines challenges human-centric notions of efficacy in anthropological discussions of healing. Their work of making things medicinal-or pharmacopoiesis-centers on p…

  • Contingent Efficacies in Buryat Tibetan Medicine

    Tatiana ChudakovaARTICLEAsian Medicine2015

    Focusing on sites of encounter between post-socialist biomedicine and Tibetan medicine in Eastern Siberia, this article explores overlapping ideologies of efficacy at work. In the absence of a single framework for determining its potencies, Tibetan medicine is caught between multiple regimes of legitimacy necessitated by scientific research, clinical protocols, and state regulatory frameworks. Through an exploration of three ethnographic case stu…

  • The Pulse in the Machine: Automating Tibetan Diagnostic Palpation in Postsocialist Russia

    Open AccessTatiana ChudakovaARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…2015Cited by: 2References: 27

    This article analyzes efforts by Soviet and present-day scientists in Russia to 'rationalize' and ultimately automate the diagnostic techniques of Tibetan medicine. It tracks the institutional and conceptual histories of designing a pulse diagnostic system, a project that began in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It has recently been re-enlivened in Buryatia, an ethnic minority region in Southeastern Siberia, in efforts to mobilize indigenous…