What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism

M.E. Ormond

doi:10.4337/9781783471195.00021

What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism

M.E. Ormond

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Flushed with excitement over the panacea medical tourism seems to promise for so many, have stakeholders paused long enough in the construction of the medical tourism industry to reflect on the striking economic, social, political and technological imbalances in both home and destination countries underlying the relatively novel phenomenon of medical tourism? What has actually been democratized and levelled, and for whom? This chapter geographically situates medical tourism supply and demand as well as responsibility for it by exploring what is where, why it’s there, and the challenges we face in caring about this uneven distribution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
Editors	N. Lunt, D. Horsfall, J. Hanefeld
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UK
Publisher	Edward Elgar
Pages	123-132
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781783471188
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471195.00021
Publication status	Published - 2015

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