Healing Holidays

Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales and the Quest for Health. Sprachen: Englisch. 25,0 cm / 17,5 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 158 Seiten
EAN 9781138806658
Veröffentlicht November 2014
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Beschreibung

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.

Portrait

Harish Naraindas is Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Adjunct Associate professor at the University of Iowa, USA, and was Joint-appointments Professor (2008-12), South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. His latest publication is the co-edited book, Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries. Cristiana Bastos is Senior Research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, held visiting professorships at Brown and UMass Dartmouth, USA, and authored books and articles on health, science, colonial medicine, migration, displacement; her upcoming volumes are on Goa and on race and migration in New England.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health Harish Naraindas and Cristiana Bastos 2. Taking the (southern) waters: science, slavery, and nationalism at the Virginia springs Lauren E. LaFauci 3. Seeking 'energy' vs. pain relief in spas in Brazil (Caldas da Imperatriz) and Portugal (Termas da Sulfúrea) Maria Manuel Quintela 4. From sulphur to perfume: spa and SPA at Monchique, Algarve Cristiana Bastos 5. Health tourism in a Czech health spa Amy R. Speier 6. Of relics, body parts and laser beams: the German Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa Harish Naraindas 7. Globalization and gametes: reproductive 'tourism,' Islamic bioethics, and Middle Eastern modernity Marcia C. Inhorn 8. Affective journeys: the emotional structuring of medical tourism in India Harris Solomon 9. Selling medical travel to US patient-consumers: the cultural appeal of website marketing messages Elisa J. Sobo, Elizabeth Herlihy and Mary Bicker 10. Afterword: Historical reflections on medical travel George Weisz

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