Medical tourism: the ethics, regulation, and marketing of health mobility / ed. by C.M.Hall. - Abingdon; New York, 2013. - xvi, 220 p.: ill. - (Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility; 33). - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.217-220. - ISBN 978-0-415-66575-9  Место хранения:   015 | Библиотека Института гидродинамики CO РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

List of illustrations ....................................... xi List of contributors ...................................... xiii Acknowledgements ............................................ xv PART I Introductory context ..................................... 1 1 Medical and health tourism: the development and implications of medical mobility ............................. 3 C. MICHAEL HALL PART II Regulation and meta-ethics ............................. 29 2 Quality, safety and risk in medical tourism ................. 31 NEIL LUNT, STEPHEN T. GREEN, RUSSELL MANNION AND DANIEL HORSFALL 3 The four modes of medical tourism: economic, social and institutional impediments ................................... 47 LYDIA L. GAN 4 Medical tourism, xenotourism and client expectations: between bioscience and responsibilisation ................... 61 PETA S. COOK, GAVIN KENDALL, MIKE MICHAEL AND NIK BROWN PART III National and regional policy, regulatory and competitive settings ........................................... 75 5 Impacts of health policy on medical tourism in Germany ...... 77 CHRISTOF PFORR AND CORNELIA LOCHER 6 Thermal medical of versus surgical medical tourism in Hungary: the challenges of reconciling public and private sector policies ............................................. 95 MELANIE SMITH, LÁSZLÓ PUCZKÓ AND IVETT SZIVA 7 Health and spa tourism in the Czech and Slovak Republics ... 109 HALINA KOTIKOVA AND EVA SCHWARTZHOFFOVA 8 Macao's cross-border medical tourism: a new way forward? ... 123 CINDIA CHING-CHI LAM, HILARY DU CROS AND LOUIS VONG PART IV Branding, markets and promotion ....................... 137 9 Branding health and medical tourism services: an analysis of members of public health insurers in Germany ............ 139 TANJA C. BOGA AND KLAUS WEIERMAIR 10 An investigation of Korean health tourists' behavior: benefit sought, brand equity, and intention to visit ....... 154 YOUNG HOON KIM, CHANGSAN BOO AND MINCHEOL KIM 11 Medical tourism in Asia: Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India .................................................. 167 WONG KEE MUN AND GHAZALI MUSA 12 Claiming 'cultural competence': the promotion of multi-ethnic Malaysia as a medical tourism destination ..... 187 MEGHANN ORMOND PART V Conclusion: the contested spaces of medical tourism .... 201 13 The contested futures and spaces of medical tourism ........ 203 C. MICHAEL HALL Index ...................................................... 217