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...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 582 - 599
Main Author:	Praspaliauskiene, Rima
Format:	journal article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2016
Subjects:	Lithuania Public health Medical care costs Medical quality control Anthropology Empathy Physician-patient relations Spirituality Gift giving Payment Health services administration Management
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost