Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care [electronic resource] /
Botterill, D.editor.
Pennings, G.editor.
Mainil, T.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction; David Botterill, Tomas Mainil and Guido Pennings -- 2. Sickness, Health, Tourism and the Ever Present Threat of Death: Nineteenth Century Spa and Seasonal Travel; David M. Bruce -- 3. A Way through the Maze: Exploring Differences and Overlaps between Wellness and Medical Tourism Providers; Cornelia Voigt and Jennifer H. Laing -- 4. Caring For Non-Residents in Barbados: Examining the Implications of Inbound Transnational Medical Care for Public and Private Health Care; Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks, Leigh Turner, Rory Johnston, Henry Fraser, Laura Kadowaki, Mary Choi and Krystyna Adams -- 5. Tourists with Severe Disability; Angie Luther -- 6. Beauty and the Beach: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism; Ruth Holliday, Kate Hardy, David Bell, Emily Hunter, Meredith Jones, Elpseth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor -- 7. Cross-Border Reproductive Care around the World: Recent Controversies; Wannes Van Hoof and Guido Pennings -- 8. Transplant Tourism; Thomas D. Schiano and Rosamond Rhodes -- 9. The European Cross-Border Patient as both Citizen and Consumer: Public Health and Health System Implications; Tomas Mainil, Matt Commers and Kai Michelsen -- 10. Canadian Medical Travel Companies and the Globalization of Healthcare; Leigh Turner -- 11. The Ethical Management of Medical Tourism; Guido Pennings -- 12. Habermas, Transnational Health Care and Cross-Culturalism; Tomas Mainil, Vincent Platenkamp and Herman Meulemans -- 13. The Impact of Medical Tourism in Low- And Middle-Income Countries; Melisa Marti;nez Álvarez, Richard D. Smith and Rupa Chanda -- 14. The Impact of the Internet on Medical Tourism; Daniel Horsfall, Neil Lunt, Hannah King, Johanna Hanefeld and Richard D. Smith -- 15. Towards a Model of Sustainable Health Destination Management Based On Health Regions; Tomas Mainil, Keith Dinnie, David Botterill, Vincent Platenkamp, Francis van Loon and Herman Meulemans.
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.
Welfare state.
Geography.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Social policy.
Social medicine.
Medicine.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Geography, general.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Social Policy.
Medical Sociology.
Medicine/Public Health, general.