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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796074803321

Autore

Praspaliauskiene Rima

Titolo

Enveloped lives : caring and relating in Lithuanian health care / / Rima Praspaliauskiene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781501766077

9781501766084

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 pages)

Disciplina

338.4/73621

Soggetti

Medical economics - Social aspects - Lithuania

Medical economics - Moral and ethical aspects - Lithuania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Enveloped Lives -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enveloped Care -- Interlude I The Circulating Chocolate Box -- 1. From Bribes to Copayments: Transforming Health Care in Lithuania -- Interlude II The Surprise -- 2. Being Caught: Envelopes and Illness -- Interlude III of Envelopes and Greedy Doctors -- 3. "I Am a Doctor": Caught in Ambivalence -- 4. Collective Care: Relations of Obligation -- Epilogue: From Litai to Euros -- Notes -- References -- Index.