Care Work and Medical Travel

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move
Herausgeber: Vindrola-Padros, Cecilia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781793618863
• ISBN-10: 1793618860
• Artikelnr.: 61188823

Autorenporträt

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is senior research fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Caring in Diaspora: Hmong Americans Cares from Here and There
Chapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of
Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United States
Chapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of
Patients with Breast
Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-Border Medical Travel
Can Teach Us
Chapter 5: 'Caring for' and 'Caring about' International Patients in Delhi:
Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and Sympathy
Chapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational
Health Practices of Migrants in Finland
Chapter 7: The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Emotional Support and
Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel from
Developing Countries: Psychological and Ethical Perspectives and a Call for
Separation of Services
Chapter 8: Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in
Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 9: The Invisible Work of Care and Emotions along the Trajectories
of Beninese Children Traveling to Switzerland without Their Family for
Heart Surgery