Enveloped Lives : : Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care /

Enveloped Lives : : Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care / / Rima Praspaliauskiene.

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Rima Praspaliauskiene uses the envelope to explore complex doctor-patient interactions that go beyond notions of the gift or the bribe. Handing envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in public health care is often seen as a remnant of socialism that continues as an integral part of the Lithu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Praspaliauskiene, Rima,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Enveloped Care
  • Interlude I. THE CIRCULATING CHOCOLATE BOX
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Bribes to Copayments: Transforming Health Care in Lithuania
  • Interlude II THE SURPRISE
  • Introduction
  • 2. Being Caught: Envelopes and Illness
  • Interlude III OF ENVELOPES AND GREEDY DOCTORS
  • Introduction
  • 3. “I Am a Doctor”: Caught in Ambivalence
  • 4. Collective Care: Relations of Obligation
  • Epilogue: From Litai to Euros
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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