Overview

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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Author:   Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ,  Audrey Bochaton ,  Valorie A. Crooks ,  Matthew Dalstrom
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781793618863

ISBN 10:   1793618860
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   03 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction Chapter 1: Caring in Diaspora: Hmong Americans Cares from Here and There 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 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 Emotional Support and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel from Developing 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

Reviews

This volume is a groundbreaking addition to the scholarship on caring and care work in the context of medical travel. Offering compelling contributions from across the globe, this collection provides exciting new insights on mobility and the caring roles of a wide range of actors. It is an essential and powerful read.--Heide Castaneda, University of South Florida

This volume is a groundbreaking addition to the scholarship on caring and care work in the context of medical travel. Offering compelling contributions from across the globe, it provides exciting new insights on mobility and the caring roles of a wide range of actors. It is an essential and powerful read.--Heide Castaneda, University of South Florida

Author Information

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is senior research fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention at University College London.

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