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Author Praspaliauskiene, Rima, author.

Title Enveloped lives : caring and relating in Lithuanian health care / Rima Praspallausklene
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 146 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2022)
Subject Medical economics -- Social aspects -- Lithuania
Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Lithuania
Medical care, Cost of -- Social aspects -- Lithuania
Exchange -- Social aspects -- Lithuania
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
Exchange -- Social aspects
Medical care, Cost of -- Social aspects
Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Social conditions
Industry & industrial studies.
Industry.
SUBJECT Lithuania -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006485
Subject Lithuania
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022000660
ISBN 9781501766077
1501766074
9781501766084
1501766082