Enveloped Lives: Practicing Health and Care in Lithuania.
This article analyzes informal medical payments that the majority of Lithuanians give or feel compelled to give to doctors before or after treatment. It focuses on how patients and their caretakers encounter, practice, and enact informal payments in health care and how these payments create a realit...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 582 - 599 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2016
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