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Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

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Editors:
  1. David Botterill

    1. Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

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  2. Guido Pennings

    1. Ghent University, Belgium

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  3. Tomas Mainil

    1. NHTV Breda University, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David Botterill, Tomas Mainil, Guido Pennings
      Pages 1-9
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  4. Patients as Tourists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Beauty and the Beach: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

      • Ruth Holliday, Kate Hardy, David Bell, Emily Hunter, Meredith Jones, Elspeth Probyn et al.
      Pages 83-97
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    3. Cross-Border Reproductive Care Around the World: Recent Controversies

      • Wannes Van Hoof, Guido Pennings
      Pages 98-112
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    4. Transplant Tourism

      • Thomas D. Schiano, Rosamond Rhodes
      Pages 113-130
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    5. The European Cross-Border Patient as Both Citizen and Consumer: Public Health and Health System Implications

      • Tomas Mainil, Matt Commers, Kai Michelsen
      Pages 131-148
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  5. Entanglements with Medical Tourism: Policy, Management and Business Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Canadian Medical Travel Companies and the Globalisation of Health Care

      • Leigh Turner
      Pages 151-178
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    3. The Ethical Management of Medical Tourism

      • Guido Pennings
      Pages 179-193
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    4. Habermas, Transnational Health Care and Cross-Culturalism

      • Tomas Mainil, Vincent Platenkamp, Herman Meulemans
      Pages 194-207
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    5. The Impact of Medical Tourism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

      • Melisa Martínez Álvarez, Richard D. Smith, Rupa Chanda
      Pages 208-222
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    6. The Impact of the Internet on Medical Tourism

      • Daniel Horsfall, Neil Lunt, Hannah King, Johanna Hanefeld, Richard D. Smith
      Pages 223-239
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    7. Towards a Model of Sustainable Health Destination Management Based on Health Regions

      • Tomas Mainil, Keith Dinnie, David Botterill, Vincent Platenkamp, Francis van Loon, Herman Meulemans
      Pages 240-255
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 256-258
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About this book

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

    David Botterill

  • Ghent University, Belgium

    Guido Pennings

  • NHTV Breda University, The Netherlands

    Tomas Mainil

About the editors

Krystyna Adams, Simon Fraser University, Canada David Bell, University of Leeds, UK David M Bruce, University of the West of England, UK Rupa Chanda, Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore (IIMB), India Mary Choi, Simon Fraser University, Canada Matt Commers, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Valorie A Crooks, Simon Fraser University, Canada Keith Dinnie, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Johanna Hanefeld, University of Edinburgh, UK Henry Fraser, University of the West Indies, Barbados Kate Hardy, University of Leeds, UK Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds, UK Daniel Horsfall, University of York, UK Emily Hunter, University of Technology, Australia Rory Johnston, Simon Fraser University, Canada Meredith Jones, University of Technology, Australia Laura Kadowaki, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hannah King, University of York, UK Jennifer H Laing, Monash University, Australia Neil Lunt, University of York, UK Angie Luther, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK Melisa Martinez Álvarez, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Herman Meulemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium Kai Michelsen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Vincent Platenkamp, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, Australia Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, University of Leicester, UK Thomas D. Schiano, Mount SinaiSchool of Medicine, USA Richard D. Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University, Canada Leigh Turner, University of Minnesota, USA Wannes Van Hoof, Ghent University, Belgium Francis van Loon, University of Antwerp, Belgium Cornelia Voigt, Curtin University, Australia

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