ISBN:
9781793644183
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 209 Seiten)
Serie:
The anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Schlagwort(e):
Privates Krankenhaus
;
Ethnomedizin
;
Medizinische Versorgung
;
Indien
;
Indien
;
Privates Krankenhaus
;
Medizinische Versorgung
;
Ethnomedizin
Kurzfassung:
In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Study through the Lens of the Ethnographer -- The Global Trade of Medical Tourism -- Following the Footprints of Medical Tourism -- The Emergence of Medical Tourism in a Hypercommodified Healthcare System -- Note -- Chapter 1: "First World Treatment at Third World Prices" -- Studying Up: A Critical, Rights-Based Approach -- Encounters of "Tourism" in Medical Tourism
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Medical Tourism and Economic Development in India -- Global Structural Healthcare Service Inequities -- Chapter 2: Medical Tourism and the Hypercommodification of Healthcare -- India's Population Demographics and Health Status -- Structure of The Indian Healthcare System -- Out-of-pocket Impoverishment -- The Rise of Biomedicine in India -- The Enduring Global Agenda of Health Commodification -- Equity Impacts of the Commodification of Healthcare -- Commodified Healthcare and Economic Exclusion -- Conclusion
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 3: The Intersections of Tourism and Health: The Marketization of Medical Tourism -- A Global Tourism Destination -- The Affective Work of Branding for Medical Tourism -- National Branding: Constructing a Signature Niche -- Tourism Imaginaries and the Construction of "Hospitels" -- The Affective Branding of Hospital Sites and Spaces -- Hospital Accreditation as Quality Branding -- Affective Digital Marketing -- Partnerships with Third-Party Facilitators -- The Impact of Multiscaled Disruptive "Events" for Destination Countries -- Sudden Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Political Unrest and Security Volatility -- Disease Outbreaks: The Mobility of Pathogens and People -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Places in Peril: Medical Tourism and the Transitioning of Trust -- Tertiary Health Characteristics: Disentangling Sectoral Classifications -- The Ambiguous Categorization of Hospitals in Mumbai -- Hospitals as a Site of Investment -- Charitable, Religious, and Quasi-corporate Trust Hospitals -- Growth of the Corporate Tertiary Healthcare Sector -- Quasi-corporate Hospitals: The Hypercommodification of the Not-For-Profit Sector
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Historical Context of Trust Hospitals in Mumbai -- The Quasi-corporate Transitioning of Ganapathiraju Hospital -- Local Contextual Forces and the Hypercommodification of Trust Hospitals -- Impacts of the Corporatization of the Tertiary Health Sector -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 5: Mobility, Identity, and the Global Imaginary: The Worlding of the Healthcare Workforce -- The Indian Medical Workforce: Development of Professional Standards -- The International Mobility of Medical Professionals -- Internal Mobility of Health Professionals
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