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OverviewBy taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated. In this key text Vindrola- Padros presents a comprehensive overview of the work carried out on this topic to date, highlights the gaps that remain and suggests strategies for enriching medical travel research in the future. Drawing from the author’s research on internal medical travel to access pediatric oncology treatment in Buenos Aires, Argentina and other research from across the globe, this book presents four dimensions of medical travel that can be explored through a critical (im)mobilities lens: infrastructures, differential mobility empowerments, culture and affective dimensions of care and travel. Vindrola-Padros encourages the reader to critically explore processes of medical travel by considering the structures that shape travel, individual capacities for travel, the role emotions play in decisions and experiences of movement and service delivery and the ways in which culture(s) influence both travel and care. This book will be important reading for scholars across medical sociology, anthropology and critical health studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cecilia Vindrola PadrosPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780815385257ISBN 10: 0815385250 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 08 October 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Critical perspectives in medical travel Chapter 3: Medical travel at a global scale Chapter 4: Medical travel at a local scale: An example of intra-national medical travel Chapter 5: Medical travel infrastructures Chapter 6: Differential medical travel experiences and possibilities Chapter 7: Affective journeys and the imagination Chapter 8: Future directions in medical travel researchReviewsAuthor InformationCecilia Vindrola-Padros is a medical anthropologist working at University College, London. Her research focuses on topics such as: embedded research, rapid qualitative research, health service reconfigurations, and the delivery of complex treatment in LMICs. She is interested in the relationship between mobility and health and has carried out research on medical travel for over 10 years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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