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Medical tourism and transnational health care
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Medical sociology as a heuristic instrument for medical tourism and cross-border healthcare Comment on \International patients on operation vacation – perspectives of patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatments\
In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient mobility.
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Magic Mountains and multi-disciplines in international medical mobilities Comment on \Patient mobility in the global marketplace: a multidisciplinary perspective\
Medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. This tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. Multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.
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The discourse of medical tourism in the media
Purpose - Non-discursive practices such as the economy and political constellations have always caused shifts in history. However, in the network society of today, these shifts have become omnipresent. Globalization of health and medical tourism have created a shift or rupture in the history of healthcare provision and into the lives of different stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to detect and assess the rupture caused by global health care or medical tourism within the field of the written media, in order to define the reality of medical tourism as a trans-historical field.Design methodology approach - The methodology of this study comprised an extensive discourse analysis of written and new media performed over a time frame of more than a decade. Market, medical, ethical and patient discourses were detected along scientific sources, international and local newspapers.Findings - Results indicate that a change in the market discourse has caused a shift in the attitude towards medical tourism, where ethical voices are seen as submissive to the market logic. In the current time perspective, medical tourism has become more mature with the development of non-ethical counterparts such as organ tourism and reproductive tourism as a consequence.Originality value - The research framework shows that the general public receives a normative message from the medical tourism sector.
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Narrative Analysis as a Tool for Contextual Tourism Research: An Exploration
Narrative analysis within the social sciences has evolved throughout this decennium as a mature qualitative methodology. An extensive body of academic publications has already been portrayed. The urgency of a narrative analysis becomes even more obvious in light of the emerging network
society and the tacit knowledge, hidden in its interacting networks. Narratives are vehicles par excellence to uncover this hidden information. The growing attention within the academic and professional community for the attribution of implicit, contextual information that should make social
reality more visible in everyday life, is related to the growing significance of narrative analysis for research into tourism. How can stories of silent voices in the tourism field be related to the main developments in tourism theory and practice? In this article a conceptual frame will be
developed as an answer to this question. A critical review on the cultural experiences in the international classroom of tourism studies in the Dutch universities of Wageningen and Breda will illustrate the significance of this frame and a methodological design will be suggested for further
use.
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Transnational health care and medical tourism: Understanding 21st-century patient mobility Towards a rationale of transnational health region development
International patients are increasingly travelling for health reasons in a globalized health economy. In response, governmental bodies such as the EU are developing frameworks to regulate patient mobility. In other parts of the world less regulation and more privatization is taking place, creating the phenomenon of medical tourism in contrast to the cross-border health care seen in the EU. This dissertation proposes an alternative global terminology of transnational health care, as a professionalized, structured network of health services visible to the international patient. Furthermore a focus is on five factors which influence the international patient: 1. The role of worldmaking and the internet:. Health providers are using the Internet to attract international patients. The content that is put online, could be seen as ethically unjust. 2. The role of culturalism: Following Jurgen Habermas one can observe that in medical tourism both strategic and communicative actions are present. Culturalism can enhance the balance between those actions. 3. The role of the media: The media show a market discourse of medical tourism, presenting products as \"opportunities\". An ethical discourse is still present, but is framed within this market perspective. 4. The role of quality in the sector: International patient departments guide the international patient in her or his quest for non-medical enquiry. In this framework measuring the quality of these services requires further exploration. 5. The relation with public health: International patients in the EU could be seen as both citizens with rights and health consumers. These perspectives have complex relationships with existing and future regulations. Based on these five factors, a policy route is suggested to enable (regional) governments in steering the health provision potential of their region to position themselves as transnational health regions in view of visibility and quality for patients and other regions.
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