Care Work and Medical Travel

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (Anthology Editor) , Audrey Bochaton (Contributor) , Valorie A. Crooks (Contributor) , Matthew Dalstrom (Contributor) , Joyeeta Dastidar (Contributor) , Cinzia Greco (Contributor) ,
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Care Work and Medical Travel

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (Anthology Editor) , Audrey Bochaton (Contributor) , Valorie A. Crooks (Contributor) , Matthew Dalstrom (Contributor) , Joyeeta Dastidar (Contributor) , Cinzia Greco (Contributor) ,
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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.

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 H

Product details

Published May 03 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 214
ISBN 9781793618863
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 239 x 162 mm
Series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

CV
Anthology Editor

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

AB
Contributor

Audrey Bochaton

VC
Contributor

Valorie A. Crooks

MD
Contributor

Matthew Dalstrom

JD
Contributor

Joyeeta Dastidar

CG
Contributor

Cinzia Greco

DH
Contributor

Driss Habti

SH
Contributor

Sarah Hartmann

LK
Contributor

Laura Kemppainen

EL
Contributor

Elizabeth Lanphier

Elizabeth Lanphier is assistant professor in the E…

IP
Contributor

Inna Perheentupa

JP
Contributor

John Pickering

LS
Contributor

Larisa Shpakovskaya

MT
Contributor

Mai See Thao

CV
Contributor

Carla Vaucher

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 Castañeda, University of South Florida

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