Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel 1st Edition by Cecilia Vindrola Padros 9781351202015 1351202014

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• ISBN 10:1351202014
• ISBN 13:9781351202015
• Author: Cecilia Vindrola Padros

Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel

Table contents:

Series Editor Preface
Chapter One Introduction
Terminology
Studies of medical travel
My research on intra-national medical travel
Why this book?
Structure of the book
Concluding thoughts
Chapter Two Critical perspectives on medical travel
Critical medical anthropology (CMA)
Critical medical geography
Critical ethics
Post-colonial theory
Critical (im)mobilities
The mobilities paradigm
Infrastructures
Mobility as capital
Imagined mobilities and possibilities
Affective (im)mobilities
Conclusions
Chapter Three Medical travel at a global scale
The scale of medical travel
Medical travel flows
Reasons for travel
Assumptions and ‘myths’ of medical travel
Challenges and potential risks of medical travel
The state of academic research on medical travel
Chapter Four Medical travel at a local scale:An example of intra-national medical travel
Medical travel in Latin America and the Caribbean
A brief history of the Argentine healthcare system
Decentralized planning
The current healthcare system
Cancer treatment in Argentina and the need for medical travel
My ethnographic research of intra-national medical travel
Fieldwork
Data analysis
The children and parents who shared their stories with me
Three stories of internal medical travel
Sebastian
Camila
Rodrigo
Concluding thoughts
Chapter Five Medical travel infrastructures
Global infrastructures
The creation of local infrastructures for care delivery
The facilitation of medical travel
‘Hidden’ and informal actors
Infrastructuring
Constrained journeys
Concluding thoughts
Chapter Six Differential medical travel experiences and possibilities
Medical travel possibilities
Consumer choice?
Funding the journey
The process of traveling
Interactions with medical facilities and practitioners
Conclusions
Chapter Seven Affective journeys and the imagination
Dreams and imagined futures
Home away from home
Affective labor and caring for medical travelers
Conclusions
Chapter Eight Future directions in medical travel research
Overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches in the book
Areas of strength in medical travel research
Future areas of exploration
Failed attempts at medical travel or imagined journeys that never materialize
The logistics of medical travel
Internal medical travel
The experiences of those accompanying medical travelers
Epistemological openness and invigoration

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