Collection of articles . Publisher of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2009. — 430 s. — ISBN 978-5-94380-088-7 . Lack of institutional trust is a sustainable characteristic of Russian society. It makes sense to distrust institutions and professionals when we talk about reproductive health. Why people do not trust doctors? Why expectant mothers avoid attending women's clinics? What strategies do women resort to, to get reliable medical care? Turning to the analysis of the interaction between a gynecologist and a patient , The authors of the collection analyze the difficulties of trust formation , The Role of Social Media , Material resources and individual knowledge , as well as the problems of obtaining sexual education and abandoning the "abortion culture" of protection.