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Medical tourism / John Connell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connell, John, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical tourism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- With increasing numbers of people travelling abroad for medical or cosmetic procedures, medical tourism is now a growing niche in the tourism market. This book looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how health related travel fits into a tourism framework.
- Contents:
- Introduction: patients without borders
- The antiquity of health tourism
- Mind and matter: health tourism or cosmetic surgery?
- The rise of medical tourism
- Medical tourism and the new Asia
- Marketing medical tourism
- The economics of medical tourism
- Extremes, ethics and inequality
- But is it tourism?
- Global health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Connell, John, 1946- Medical tourism.
- ISBN:
- 9781845937096
- 1845937090
- OCLC:
- 712294914
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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