Kristen Smith

Medical Tourism and Inequity in India (eBook, ePUB)

The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores Indian private hospitals and their role in the global healthcare service supply chain within various religious, social, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. Drawing on critical medical anthropology theories as well as health and human rights perspectives, Smith problematizes the assumed independence between the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues, while highlighting the rapid transformation of healthcare services into merely another global commodity. For more information, check out A Conversation with Kristen Smith, author of Medical Tourism and Inequity in India: The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793644183
• Artikelnr.: 63659660

Autorenporträt

Kristen Smith is senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tensions, Conflicts and Contradictions
Chapter 1: 'First World Treatment at Third World Prices'
Chapter 2: Medical Tourism and the Hyper-commodification of Healthcare
Chapter 3: The Intersections of Tourism and Health: The Marketization of
Medical Tourism
Chapter 4: Places in Peril: Medical Tourism and the Transitioning of Trust
Chapter 5: Mobility, Identity and the Global Imaginary: The Worlding of the
Healthcare Workforce
Chapter 6: The Structural Violence of Medical Tourism: Gated Enclaves and
Health Exclusion
Conclusion