Care Work and Medical Travel

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

doi:10.5771/9781793618870

Summary

This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, Finland, Switzerland, and Russia.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1886-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1887-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 208
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Medical Travel Research Today No access
2. Caring and Emotions No access
3. Engaging with This Book No access
4. References No access
1. 1. Method No access
2. 1. The Hopes of Hmong Herbal Medicine No access
  2. Kaj Siab (Happy): The Hopes of Return No access
  3. Filial Love (Sib Hlub) No access
  4. Ambivalence: Frictions, Capital, and Power No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Vignette 1: Dina and Paul No access
2. Vignette 2: Francine and Frank No access
3. Vignette 3: Gertrude and Preston No access
4. Vignette 4: Norma and Garett No access
5. Vignette 5: Francine and Roger No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Acknowledgments No access
8. References No access
1. 1. Reconstructing Healthcare Mobilities: A Note on Methodology No access
  2. Between the Logics of Cure and Care: Mobilities in Italy No access
  3. Choice and Care: The Logics behind Micro-Mobility in France No access
  4. Logics of Mobility and Breast Cancer: A Provisional Conclusion No access
  5. The Uncertain Future of Mobility: A Post-scriptum No access
2. Notes No access
3. References No access
1. 1. Medical Travel and Patient Preferences No access
2. Methods No access
3. Patients in Search of Care No access
4. 1. Mexican Medical Providers No access
5. Discussion No access
6. Toward a New Model of Health in the United States No access
7. References No access
1. Transnational Healthcare and Medical Travel to Delhi No access
2. Conceptualizing Care Work in Medical Travel No access
3. A Note on Data Collection and a Brief Introduction of the Participants No access
4. The Medical Travel Facilitation Model Practiced in Delhi No access
5. Caring for International Patients No access
6. Caring about International Patients No access
7. Unraveling Ambivalent Rationales: Business Strategy and Sympathy No access
8. Medical Travel Facilitation between Business Strategy and Sympathy No access
9. Note No access
10. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Recent Research on Migrants’ Transnational Health-seeking and Caregiving Practices No access
3. Data and Methods No access
4. Russian Origin Migrants’ transnational Health and Care Practices No access
5. 1. 1. Digitalized Information Exchange No access
    2. Care Flows from Finland to Russia No access
  2. 1. Movement of Medications, Technologies, and Money from Finland to Russia No access
6. Transferring “Medical Culture” between the Countries of Origin and Destination No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. References No access
1. Reasons Why Couples Seek CBRC No access
2. Frequently Experienced Psychological Effects of Infertility and Need for Reproductive Assistance No access
3. 1. Recommendations for Standardization of Care, Challenges, and Goals for the Future No access
4. Acknowledgment No access
5. References No access
1. The Humanitarians No access
2. Intimacy No access
3. Testimony No access
4. Care No access
5. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Research Background No access
3. From the First Symptoms to the Announcement of the Diagnosis No access
4. Support and Solidarity Networks No access
5. A Gendered Facet of Emotions No access
6. 1. Managing One’s Own Emotions as Well as the Emotions of Others No access
  2. Experiencing the Limits of Their Function No access
  3. The Thankless Care Work of Volunteers No access
  4. Unraveling the Researcher’s Emotions No access
7. Children’s Emotions before Their Medical Travel No access
8. Caring for Each Other during Their Medical Travel: Children’s Emotional and Care Work No access
9. CHILDREN’S MIXED FEELINGS No access
10. The Return of the Child: From Joy to Difficulty No access
11. Conclusive Perspectives: A Complex Emotional Network No access
12. References No access
Index No access Pages 201 - 202
About the Editor No access Pages 203 - 204
About the Contributors No access Pages 205 - 208