Care Work and Medical Travel

doi:10.5771/9781793618870

Care Work and Medical Travel

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

1. Edition 2021

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ISBN print: 978-1-7936-1886-3
ISBN online: 978-1-7936-1887-0
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, Finland, Switzerland, and Russia.

Schlagworte

diaspora international patients therapy tourism studies medical anthropology medicine public health migrant health mobility studies health geography nursing health services humanitarian aid

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i–vi Preface i–vi
- Contents
1–10 Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction 1–10
11–34 Chapter 1: Healing in the Diaspora: Hmong American and Hmong Lao Practices of Care 11–34
35–50 Chapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United States 35–50
51–68 Chapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of Patients with Breast Cancer in Italy and France 51–68
69–90 Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-border Medical Travel Can Teach Us 69–90
91–114 Chapter 5: “Caring for” and “Caring about” International Patients in Delhi: Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and Sympathy 91–114
115–140 Chapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational Health Practices of Migrants in Finland 115–140
141–154 Chapter 7: The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Therapist and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-border Reproductive Travel from Developed Countries: Psychological and Ethical Perspectives and a Call for Separation of Services 141–154
155–176 Chapter 8: Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in Humanitarian Aid 155–176
177–200 Chapter 9: The Invisible Work of Care and Emotions along the Trajectories of Beninese Children Traveling to Switzerland without Their Family for Heart Surgery 177–200
201–202 Index 201–202
203–204 About the Editor 203–204
205–208 About the Contributors 205–208

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