45 research outputs found
Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”
No full textIn this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient mobility
Diving into the contexts of in-between worlds: worldmaking in medical tourism
No full textIn this review article, the authors contextualize the contemporary practice of medical tourism in terms of the concept of worldmaking, which was introduced (in this journal) with two articles a year or two ago by Hollinshead. Here, the authors first contextualize medical tourism in terms of "worldmaking" per medium of the observations of the corporeal realms identified by Alexis de Tocqueville almost 200 years ago. In 1835, de Tocqueville wrote with enthusiasm tinged with nostalgic regret about the new world of American democracy that he then saw as the world of the future. A serious rupture in history took place of which he became a most relevant critic. But there have been (according to Mainil, Platenkamp, and Meulemans) many ruptures since then: that is, there have been short periods of "in-between worlds" that became ever more anchored in the timeline of Western history. Today, they argue that tourism as a field of expertise, practice, and knowledge is intertwined with several other networks of expertise. It is responsible (itself) for many small "ruptures" in these modern times. Mass tourism can be seen as such a shift. Sustainable tourism and the attention paid to climate change would be another such shift. And the authors of this review argue that an interesting and deep-seated case in this regard is medical tourism. They argue here that medical tourism has a great deal of worldmaking capacity, especially by means of the Internet and international marketing tools. It arises in the interstices of the interacting networks of a global world. It crosses borders in line with emerging power structures in a global network, but it also meets local resistance or regional obstacles that are related to other networks. In between these worlds of human experience, various interactions of perspectives on the concept of health itself come to the surface. Within the field of medical tourism different stakeholders play a role in a worldmaking process. Our reviewers from the Low Countries thereby argue that medical tourism itself is responsible for a Tocquevillean rupture within and across our global network society. In their view, medical tourism also constitutes a new hybrid-that is, as a hybrid medical paradigm that seems to be appearing within the performative and productive world of tourism
Medical sociology as a heuristic instrument for medical tourism and cross-border healthcare Comment on “International patients on operation vacation – perspectives of patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatments”
No full textIn this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism
and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and
linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs
et al.
on patients travelling to Hungary for
orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient mobility
Transnational health care and medical tourism : understanding 21st-century patient mobility
No full textContes et morale(s)
No full textDans ce numéro de Féeries, treize spécialistes du merveilleux analysent les rapports complexes qu’entretient le conte de fées (essentiellement) avec la morale, et les morales. Pour ce qui est du domaine français (conte oriental inclus), sont considérés non seulement des contes et recueils des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Perrault, Lhéritier, Moncrif, Crébillon, Duclos, Voltaire, Galland, Pétis, Desjardins et divers contes en vers), mais aussi un recueil de fables et contes contemporains inspirés par La Fontaine (dont le processus d’écriture est ici commenté par l’auteur). Par ailleurs, le domaine allemand fait l’objet de plusieurs articles (sur les contes des frères Grimm). Est examiné, enfin, le devenir des Histoires ou Contes du temps passé de Perrault dans le patrimoine merveilleux russe deux siècles après leur parution. Outre le dossier critique de ce treizième numéro de Féeries portant sur Conte et morale(s), la revue propose aussi, comme chaque année, plusieurs recensions détaillées d’ouvrages critiques récents intéressant son champ d’étude. Un hommage est enfin rendu à René Démoris, grand spécialiste du XVIIIe siècle en littérature française et en esthétique, disparu début 2016, et qui a marqué deux générations de chercheurs. Plusieurs de ses travaux ont insufflé une dynamique aux études sur le conte merveilleux
Magic Mountains and Multi-disciplines in International Medical Mobilities; Comment on “Patient Mobility in the Global Marketplace: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”
No full textMedical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. This tension follows the same ratio as many other
historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. Multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the
medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe
