New Book on Health Care, Money, and Relationships

January 8, 2023

The book cover of Enveloped Lives. A larger envelope in the top right corner shows a packet of pills half out. A stack of Lithuanian bills can be seen halfway out in an envelope in the bottom left corner. Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care explores the complex doctor-patient interactions that revolve around the integral practice of handing envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in Lithuania's public health care system. The book, authored by Rima Praspaliauskiene, visiting scholar at Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, showcases how this practice extends beyond notions of materialism and corruption, and instead prioritizes relations and practices transcending the economic sphere.

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