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Medical Tourism and
Transnational Health Care
Editedby
David Botterill
CardiffMetropolitanUniversity,UK
Guido Pennings
GhentUniversity,Belgium
and
Tomas Mainil
NHTVBredaUniversity,TheNetherlands
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GuidoPenningsandTomasMainil2013
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Contents
ListofBoxes,TablesandFigures vii
ListofContributors viii
AbouttheEditors xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
DavidBotterill,TomasMainilandGuidoPennings
Part I TouristsasPatients
2 Sickness,Health,TourismandtheEver-PresentThreatof
Death:Nineteenth-CenturySpaandSeasonalTravel 13
DavidM.Bruce
3 AWayThroughtheMaze:ExploringDifferencesandOverlaps
BetweenWellnessandMedicalTourismProviders 30
CorneliaVoigtandJenniferH.Laing
4 CaringforNon-residentsinBarbados:Examiningthe
ImplicationsofInboundTransnationalMedicalCareforPublic
andPrivateHealthCare 48
JeremySnyder,ValorieA.Crooks,LeighTurner,RoryJohnston,
HenryFraser,LauraKadowaki,MaryChoiandKrystynaAdams
5 TouristswithSevereDisability 64
AngieLuther
Part II PatientsasTourists
6 BeautyandtheBeach:MappingCosmeticSurgeryTourism 83
RuthHolliday,KateHardy,DavidBell,EmilyHunter,Meredith
Jones,ElspethProbynandJacquelineSanchezTaylor
7 Cross-BorderReproductiveCareAroundtheWorld:Recent
Controversies 98
WannesVanHoofandGuidoPennings
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8 TransplantTourism 113
ThomasD.SchianoandRosamondRhodes
9 TheEuropeanCross-BorderPatientasBothCitizenand
Consumer:PublicHealthandHealthSystemImplications 131
TomasMainil,MattCommersandKaiMichelsen
Part III EntanglementswithMedicalTourism:Policy,
ManagementandBusinessResponses
10 CanadianMedicalTravelCompaniesandtheGlobalisationof
HealthCare 151
LeighTurner
11 TheEthicalManagementofMedicalTourism 179
GuidoPennings
12 Habermas,TransnationalHealthCareandCross-Culturalism 194
TomasMainil,VincentPlatenkampandHermanMeulemans
13 TheImpactofMedicalTourisminLow-andMiddle-Income
Countries 208
MelisaMartínezÁlvarez,RichardD.SmithandRupaChanda
14 TheImpactoftheInternetonMedicalTourism 223
DanielHorsfall,NeilLunt,HannahKing,Johanna
HanefeldandRichardD.Smith
15 TowardsaModelofSustainableHealthDestination
ManagementBasedonHealthRegions 240
TomasMainil,KeithDinnie,DavidBotterill,VincentPlatenkamp,
FrancisvanLoonandHermanMeulemans
Index 256
Boxes, Tables and Figures
Boxes
14.1 Circumstanceslikelytoinvalidateguarantees 232
Tables
9.1 TypologyMainiletal. 141
10.1 Canadianmedicaltourismcompanies 156
10.2 Cross-bordermedicaltravelcompanies 164
10.3 Companiesmarketingmedicaltravelfor‘CCSVItesting’and
‘liberationprocedure’ 168
10.4 Companiesmarketingmedicaltravelforweightlosssurgery 169
10.5 Companiesmarketinginsuranceproductsenablingaccessto
careintheUS 171
10.6 Medicaltravelcompanymarketinghealthservicesto
UScitizens 173
14.1 Typesofmedicaltourismsitesandtheirkeyfeatures 226
14.2 Destinationlocationspromotedbythewebsitesintheweb
review 229
15.1 Levelsofdestinationmanagement 243
Figures
2.1 BagnidiLucca,1907,postcard 24
2.2 EnglishPharmacy,2011,called‘Betti’s’inBaedeker(1899,
p.400) 25
3.1 Typologyofmedicalandwellnesstourismproviders 36
15.1 Theoreticalfoundationsofdestinationmanagement 244
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Contributors
Krystyna Adams is a research assistant in the Medical Tourism Research
Group,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,Canada.
David Bell is Senior Lecturer in Critical Human Geography in the
DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofLeeds,UK.
DavidM.BruceisavisitingfellowintheBusinessSchoolattheUniversity
oftheWestofEngland,Bristol,UK.
Rupa Chanda is Professor in Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian
InstituteofManagement,Bangalore(IIMB),India.
Mary Choi is a research assistant in the Medical Tourism Research Group,
SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,Canada.
Matt Commers is an assistant professor in European Public Health,
Department of International Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the
Netherlands.
ValorieA.CrooksisanassociateprofessorintheDepartmentofGeography,
SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,Canada.
KeithDinnieisaseniorlecturerattheAcademyofTourism,BredaUniver-
sityofAppliedSciences,Breda,theNetherlands.
Henry Fraser is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medical Sciences,
UniversityoftheWestIndies(CaveHill).
JohannaHanefeldisalecturerinGlobalPublicHealthPolicyattheSchool
ofSocialandPoliticalScience,UniversityofEdinburgh,Edinburgh,UK.
KateHardyisalecturerinWorkandEmploymentRelations,LeedsUniver-
sityBusinessSchool,Leeds,UK.
Ruth Holliday is Professor of Gender and Culture in the Centre for Inter-
disciplinary Gender Studies, Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law,
UniversityofLeeds,Leeds,UK.
DanielHorsfallisalecturerinComparativeSocialPolicyintheDepartment
ofSocialPolicyandSocialWork,UniversityofYork,York,UK.
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ListofContributors ix
Emily Hunter is a research assistant in the Institute for Interactive Media
andLearning,UniversityofTechnology,Sydney,Australia.
Rory Johnston is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Simon
FraserUniversity,Burnaby,Canada.
Meredith Jones is a senior lecturer with the Institute for Interactive Media
andLearning,attheUniversityofTechnology,Sydney,Australia.
Laura Kadowaki was most recently a research assistant in the Medical
TourismResearchGroup,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,Canada.
Hannah King is a teaching fellow in the Department of Social Policy and
SocialWork,UniversityofYork,York,UK.
Jennifer H. Laing is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing and
TourismandHospitality,LaTrobeUniversity,Bundoora,Australia.
NeilLuntisaseniorlecturerinSocialPolicyandPublicManagementinthe
DepartmentofSocialPolicyandSocialWork,UniversityofYork,York,UK.
Angie Luther is a senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Management,
CardiffMetropolitanUniversity,Cardiff,UK.
Melisa Martinez Álvarez is a PhD student in the Department of Global
Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
London,UK.
Herman Meulemans is a professor in the Department of Sociology,
UniversityofAntwerp,Antwerp,Belgium.
Kai Michelsen is an assistant professor in the Department of International
Health,MaastrichtUniversity,Maastricht,theNetherlands.
VincentPlatenkampisanassociateprofessorandDirectoroftheCentrefor
Cross-culturalUnderstanding(CCU),NHTVUniversityofAppliedSciences,
Breda,theNetherlands.
ElspethProbynisProfessorofGenderandCulturalStudiesattheUniversity
ofSydney,Australia.
Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of
Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Professor of
