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Care Work and Medical Travel
Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move
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Care Work and Medical Travel
Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction
- Chapter 1: Healing in the Diaspora: Hmong American and Hmong Lao Practices of Care
- Chapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United States
- Chapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of Patients with Breast Cancer in Italy and France
- Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-border Medical Travel Can Teach Us
- Chapter 5: “Caring for” and “Caring about” International Patients in Delhi: Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and Sympathy
- Chapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational Health Practices of Migrants in Finland
- Chapter 7: The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Therapist and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-border Reproductive Travel from Developed Countries: Psychological and Ethical Perspectives and a Call for Separation of Services
- Chapter 8: Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in Humanitarian Aid
- Chapter 9: The Invisible Work of Care and Emotions along the Trajectories of Beninese Children Traveling to Switzerland without Their Family for Heart Surgery
- Index
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors