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Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care (Hardcover)
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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.
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