Medical tourism /

• Main Author: Connell, John, 1946- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Medical tourism.; Information and Documentation.; Health Economics, (New March 2000); Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Supply, Demand and Prices.; Marketing and Distribution.; Health Services.; Communication and Mass Media.; Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Heritage.; Tourism and Travel.; Behaviour.; Cognitive development.; Demand.; Destinations.; Globalization.; Health tourism.; Historic sites.; History.; Internet.; Market segmentation.; Marketing.; Medical services.; Tourist industry.; Visitor behaviour.; Electronic books.
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This book examines medical tourism as an emerging component of the tourist industry and a distinct and controversial element of health provision. The book consists of 10 chapters. The first chapter discusses the reasons why medical tourism has emerged. The second chapter examines a vast range of pra...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : patients without borders
• The antiquity of health tourism
• Mind and matter : health tourism or cosmetic surgery?
• The rise of medical tourism
• Medical tourism and the new Asia
• Marketing medical tourism
• The economics of medical tourism
• Extremes, ethics and inequality
• But is it tourism?
• Global health.