Medical Tourism and Inequity in India - The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare

In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues.

List of contents

Introduction: Tensions, Conflicts and Contradictions
Chapter 1: 'First World Treatment at Third World Prices'
Chapter 2: Medical Tourism and the Hyper-commodification of Healthcare
Chapter 3: The Intersections of Tourism and Health: The Marketization of Medical Tourism
Chapter 4: Places in Peril: Medical Tourism and the Transitioning of Trust
Chapter 5: Mobility, Identity and the Global Imaginary: The Worlding of the Healthcare Workforce
Chapter 6: The Structural Violence of Medical Tourism: Gated Enclaves and Health Exclusion
Conclusion

About the author

Kristen Smith is senior research fellow based at the University of Melbourne.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Smith, Smith Kristen
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781793644176
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-417-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); MEDICAL / Health Policy, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Medicolegal issues