Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care - by D Botterill & G Pennings & T Mainil (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Medicine and tourism have become separated in contemporary popular consciousness. The former implies anything but a pleasurable experience and the latter presumes a healthy disposition for participation. We argue that this popular conception of the separation of tourism and medicine ignores an historical continuity of lineage from the 18th century pursuit of a 'cure' at resorts and spas, to 20th century notions of holidays as worker welfare through to global patient mobility in the quest for cutting-edge medical interventions in so-called 'untreatable' conditions. Disciplinary divisions within the academy have reinforced the separation between medicine and tourism in popular culture, but there is now an emergent challenge to re-think the medicine/tourism nexus. Under the influence of transnational health care consumption, two very contrasting traditions of Western thought are now confronting one another. This book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine, medical ethics, health policy and management, and tourism studies"--

Book Synopsis

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine, medical ethics, health policy and management, and tourism studies.

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About the Author

Krystyna Adams, Simon Fraser University, Canada David Bell, University of Leeds, UK David M Bruce, University of the West of England, UK Rupa Chanda, Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore (IIMB), India Mary Choi, Simon Fraser University, Canada Matt Commers, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Valorie A Crooks, Simon Fraser University, Canada Keith Dinnie, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Johanna Hanefeld, University of Edinburgh, UK Henry Fraser, University of the West Indies, Barbados Kate Hardy, University of Leeds, UK Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds, UK Daniel Horsfall, University of York, UK Emily Hunter, University of Technology, Australia Rory Johnston, Simon Fraser University, Canada Meredith Jones, University of Technology, Australia Laura Kadowaki, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hannah King, University of York, UK Jennifer H Laing, Monash University, Australia Neil Lunt, University of York, UK Angie Luther, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK Melisa Martinez Álvarez, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Herman Meulemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium Kai Michelsen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Vincent Platenkamp, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, Australia Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, University of Leicester, UK Thomas D. Schiano, Mount SinaiSchool of Medicine, USA Richard D. Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University, Canada Leigh Turner, University of Minnesota, USA Wannes Van Hoof, Ghent University, Belgium Francis van Loon, University of Antwerp, Belgium Cornelia Voigt, Curtin University, Australia