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Care Work and Medical Travel [electronic resource] : Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

Author:
Vindrola-Padros, Cecilia, 1983-
Published:
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages).
Additional Creators:
Bochaton, Audrey, Crooks, Valorie A., Dalstrom, Matthew, Dastidar, Joyeeta, Greco, Cinzia, Habti, Driss, Hartmann, Sarah, Kemppainen, Laura, and Lanphier, Elizabeth
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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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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, and Medical Travel Facilitation between Business Strategy and Sympathy -- Note -- References -- 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
Summary:
This edited volume explores the interconnections between care work, travel, and healthcare, placing an emphasis on the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home.
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ISBN:
1793618879
9781793618870 (electronic bk.)
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Movement of Health-related "Things"
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