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Care Work and Medical Travel : Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move / edited by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthropology of well-being
- Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical tourism.
- Medical care--Cross-cultural studies.
- Medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction
- Medical Travel Research Today
- Caring and Emotions
- Engaging with This Book
- References
- Chapter 1: Healing in the Diaspora: Hmong American and Hmong Lao Practices of Care
- Pleasures of Care and Therapeutic Landscapes: Quest for Transnational Healing
- Method
- Hope: Beyond Biomedicine's Colonial Past and Present
- The Hopes of Hmong Herbal Medicine
- Kaj Siab (Happy): The Hopes of Return
- Filial Love (Sib Hlub)
- Ambivalence: Frictions, Capital, and Power
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United States
- Vignette 1: Dina and Paul
- Vignette 2: Francine and Frank
- Vignette 3: Gertrude and Preston
- Vignette 4: Norma and Garett
- Vignette 5: Francine and Roger
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of Patients with Breast Cancer in Italy and France
- The Italian and French Healthcare Systems
- Reconstructing Healthcare Mobilities: A Note on Methodology
- Between the Logics of Cure and Care: Mobilities in Italy
- Choice and Care: The Logics behind Micro-Mobility in France
- Logics of Mobility and Breast Cancer: A Provisional Conclusion
- The Uncertain Future of Mobility: A Post-scriptum
- Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-border Medical Travel Can Teach Us
- Patient Experiences in the United States
- Medical Travel and Patient Preferences
- Methods
- Patients in Search of Care
- Medical Tourism Facilitators
- Mexican Medical Providers
- Discussion
- Toward a New Model of Health in the United States
- Chapter 5: "Caring for" and "Caring about" International Patients in Delhi: Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and Sympathy
- Transnational Healthcare and Medical Travel to Delhi
- Conceptualizing Care Work in Medical Travel
- A Note on Data Collection and a Brief Introduction of the Participants
- The Medical Travel Facilitation Model Practiced in Delhi
- Caring for International Patients
- Caring about International Patients
- Unraveling Ambivalent Rationales: Business Strategy and Sympathy
- Medical Travel Facilitation between Business Strategy and Sympathy
- Note
- Chapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational Health Practices of Migrants in Finland
- Introduction
- Recent Research on Migrants' Transnational Health-seeking and Caregiving Practices
- Data and Methods
- Russian Origin Migrants' transnational Health and Care Practices
- Exchange of Health-related Information, Beliefs, and Habits
- Continuation of Familiar Treatment Methods and Health Habits in Finland
- Digitalized Information Exchange
- Care Flows from Finland to Russia
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Movement of Health-related "Things"
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vindrola-Padros, Cecilia Care Work and Medical Travel
- ISBN:
- 9781793618870
- 1793618879
- Publisher Number:
- 99990005767
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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