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Author Praspaliauskiene, Rima, author.

Title Enveloped lives : caring and relating in Lithuanian health care / Rima Praspallausklene.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
©2022
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 146 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: enveloped care -- From bribes to copayments: transforming health care in Lithuania -- Being caught: envelopes and illness -- I am a doctor: ethics and economics -- Collective care.
Summary "This book is an ethnography of practices of health and care in post-socialist Lithuania. It focuses on how informal payments - "little white envelopes" - are prevailed in public health care in the times of economic shortages during socialism and during the fundamental transformations to capitalism despite multiple efforts to curtail them."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Medical economics -- Social aspects -- Lithuania.
Medical economics.
Social aspects.
Lithuania.
Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Lithuania.
Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical care, Cost of -- Social aspects -- Lithuania.
Medical care, Cost of -- Social aspects.
Medical care, Cost of.
Exchange -- Social aspects -- Lithuania.
Exchange -- Social aspects.
Exchange.
Lithuania -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1991-
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical.
Chronological Term Since 1991
Other Form: Print version: Praspaliauskienė, Rima. Enveloped lives Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501765469 (DLC) 2022000659
ISBN 9781501766077 electronic book
1501766074 electronic book
9781501766084 electronic book
1501766082 electronic book
9781501765469 hardcover
9781501766114 paperback

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