1st Edition

Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel

By Cecilia Vindrola Padros Copyright 2020
174 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated. In this key text Vindrola- Padros presents a comprehensive overview of the work carried out on this topic to date, highlights the gaps that remain and suggests... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Critical perspectives in medical travel

Chapter 3: Medical travel at a global scale

Chapter 4: Medical travel at a local scale: An example of intra-national medical travel

Chapter 5: Medical travel infrastructures

Chapter 6: Differential medical travel experiences and possibilities

Chapter 7: Affective journeys and the imagination

Chapter 8: Future directions in medical travel research

Biography

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a medical anthropologist working at University College, London. Her research focuses on topics such as: embedded research, rapid qualitative research, health service reconfigurations, and the delivery of complex treatment in LMICs. She is interested in the relationship between mobility and health and has carried out research on medical travel for over 10 years.