Medical Tourism and Inequity in India

Kristen Smith

doi:10.5771/9781793644183

Summary

In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores Indian private hospitals and their role in the global healthcare service supply chain within various religious, social, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. Drawing on critical medical anthropology theories as well as health and human rights perspectives, Smith problematizes the assumed independence between the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues, while highlighting the rapid transformation of healthcare services into merely another global commodity.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4417-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4418-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 210
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Study through the Lens of the Ethnographer No access
2. The Global Trade of Medical Tourism No access
3. Following the Footprints of Medical Tourism No access
4. The Emergence of Medical Tourism in a Hypercommodified Healthcare System No access
5. Note No access
1. Studying Up: A Critical, Rights-Based Approach No access
2. Encounters of “Tourism” in Medical Tourism No access
3. Medical Tourism and Economic Development in India No access
4. Global Structural Healthcare Service Inequities No access
1. 1. Structure of The Indian Healthcare System No access
  2. Out-of-pocket Impoverishment No access
  3. The Rise of Biomedicine in India No access
2. 1. Equity Impacts of the Commodification of Healthcare No access
3. Commodified Healthcare and Economic Exclusion No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. A Global Tourism Destination No access
2. The Affective Work of Branding for Medical Tourism No access
3. National Branding: Constructing a Signature Niche No access
4. Tourism Imaginaries and the Construction of “Hospitels” No access
5. The Affective Branding of Hospital Sites and Spaces No access
6. Hospital Accreditation as Quality Branding No access
7. Affective Digital Marketing No access
8. Partnerships with Third-Party Facilitators No access
9. The Impact of Multiscaled Disruptive “Events” for Destination Countries No access
10. Sudden Macroeconomic Fluctuations No access
11. Political Unrest and Security Volatility No access
12. Disease Outbreaks: The Mobility of Pathogens and People No access
13. Conclusion No access
14. Notes No access
1. Tertiary Health Characteristics: Disentangling Sectoral Classifications No access
2. The Ambiguous Categorization of Hospitals in Mumbai No access
3. Hospitals as a Site of Investment No access
4. Charitable, Religious, and Quasi-corporate Trust Hospitals No access
5. Growth of the Corporate Tertiary Healthcare Sector No access
6. Quasi-corporate Hospitals: The Hypercommodification of the Not-For-Profit Sector No access
7. Historical Context of Trust Hospitals in Mumbai No access
8. The Quasi-corporate Transitioning of Ganapathiraju Hospital No access
9. Local Contextual Forces and the Hypercommodification of Trust Hospitals No access
10. Impacts of the Corporatization of the Tertiary Health Sector No access
11. Conclusion No access
12. Note No access
1. The Indian Medical Workforce: Development of Professional Standards No access
2. The International Mobility of Medical Professionals No access
3. Internal Mobility of Health Professionals No access
4. The Impact of Market-led Healthcare on Professional Medical Ethical Standards No access
5. 1. Case Study 1: The Medical Director, the CEO, and Medical Patronage at Tayyib Hospital No access
  2. Case Study 2: Colonel Nandal and His Military-Style Operations at Khalsa Hospital No access
6. Views of the Medical Tourist: Cash Cows, Recipients of Global Philanthropy, or Evidence of World-System Ascendence? No access
7. Conclusion No access
1. Medical Tourism, Global and Population Health No access
2. Population Health in Mumbai No access
3. Socio-spatial Determinants of Health in Mumbai: On the Wrong Side of the Fence No access
4. Connecting Social Inequity to Local Health Inequity No access
5. Covid-19: Spotlighting the Crumbling Structures of a Hypercommodified Healthcare System No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Note No access
1. Associations between the Local Hypercommodification of Healthcare and Medical Tourism as a Global Phenomenon No access
2. The Tourism of Medical Tourism No access
3. The Quasi-corporatization of Trust Hospitals No access
4. Medical Tourism and the Healthcare Workforce No access
5. Medical Tourism, Economic Development, and Rights-Based Approaches to Health No access
6. Local Biosocial Inequity and the Biopolitics of Medical Tourism in India No access
7. Challenging the Neoliberal Rhetoric of Medical Tourism No access
8. Multi-sited Hospital Ethnography No access
9. Medical Tourism and the Distortion of Health Priorities No access
1. List of Acronyms No access
Bibliography No access Pages 175 - 200
Index No access Pages 201 - 208
About the Author No access Pages 209 - 210