Medical Tourism (eBook, ePUB)

The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility
Redaktion: Hall, C. Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is one of the first to critically address the substantial political, philosophical and ethical issues that arise out of the transnational practices of medical tourism. Through a series of chapters, the book engages with key issues such as its role of regulatory and policy structures in influencing medical and health tourism, in terms of being both a push and pull force on mobilities of medical and health tourism. These issues are investigated , considering a range of developing and developed countries, medical systems and health economic perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136270529
• Artikelnr.: 38258416

Autorenporträt

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu and a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Linneaus University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introductory Context 1. Medical and Health Tourism: The Development
and Implications of Medical Mobility Part 2: Regulation and Meta-Ethics 2.
Quality, Safety and Risk in Medical Tourism 3. The Four Modes of Medical
Tourism: Economic, Social and Institutional Impediments 4. Medical Tourism,
Xenotourism and Client Expectations: Between Bioscience and
Responsibilization Part 3: National and Regional Policy, Regulatory and
Competitive Settings 5. Impacts of Health Policy on Medical Tourism in
Germany 6. Thermal versus Surgical Medical Tourism in Hungary: Reconciling
Public and Private Sector Policies 7. Health Spa Tourism in the Czech and
Slovak Republic 8. Macao's Cross-border Medical Tourism: A New Way Forward?
Part 4: Branding, Markets & Promotion 9. Branding Medical and Health
Tourism Services: An Analysis of Members of Public Health Insurers in
Germany 10. An Investigation of Korean Health Tourists' Behaviour:
Benefit-sought, Brand Equity, and Intention to Visit 11. Medical Tourism in
Asia: Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India 12. Claiming 'Cultural
Competence': The Promotion of Multi-ethnic Malaysia as a Medical Tourism
Destination Part 5: Conclusion: The Contested Spaces of Medical Tourism
13. The Contested Futures and Spaces of Medical Tourism