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Nicholas A. Scott, Assembling Moral Mobilities: Cycling, Cities and the Common Good (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020), 288 pp., 38 illus., $50 John Stehlin, Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), 328 pp., 24 photos, 11 maps, 9 tables, $27 Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel (New York: Routledge, 2019), 161 pp., $36.77 Nicola Frost and Tom Selwyn, eds., Travelling Towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking (New York: Berghahn, 2018), 182 pp., 10 illus., 1 table, $110 Peter Cox, Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 200 pp., 2 B/W illus., £120.00 (ebook £40.49) Lesley Murray and Susana Cortés-Morales, Children's Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 307 pp., 10 illus., $89.99 Jocelyne Guilbault and Timothy Rommen, eds., Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), 234 pp., $25.95 John Krige, ed., How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), 408 pp., 11 illus., $40

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Iraqis’ Cancer Itineraries

War and Health ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479875962.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 152-171

Author(s):

Mac Skelton

Keyword(s):

Chronic Illness ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Care Seeking ◽

Kinship Networks ◽

Medical Travel ◽

At Home

Since 2003, Iraqis with cancer have increasingly been forced to travel across borders for treatment unavailable at home. Two cases of Iraqi cancer patients traveling across borders to Beirut, Lebanon highlight how such travel for healthcare places enormous strains on kinship networks. While those networks enable the cobbling together of resources and information, the highly contingent character of the care-seeking journeys speaks not only to the uncertainties of chronic illness but also to the difficulties of navigating healthcare under conditions of war. The work of survival within wartime Iraq increasingly involves transnational strategies of medical travel, unsettling a picture of living and dying tethered to local relations and institutions.

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Future directions in medical travel research

Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel ◽

10.4324/9781351202039-8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 123-130

Author(s):

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

Keyword(s):

Future Directions ◽

Medical Travel

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Medical Travel/Tourism and the City

Handbook of Global Urban Health ◽

10.4324/9781315465456-11 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 182-200

Author(s):

Meghann Ormond ◽

Heidi Kaspar

Keyword(s):

Medical Travel ◽

The City

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Perception of international patients regarding cross border movement for medical services in India

Journal of Hospital Administration ◽

10.5430/jha.v8n3p23 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 23

Author(s):

Ravi Babu Koppala ◽

Manoj Kumar Gupta

Keyword(s):

Health Service Delivery ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Medical Services ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical Travel ◽

Cross Border ◽

International Borders ◽

Strongly Agree ◽

North And South

Objective: India ranks second as medical travel destination in the world after Thailand, but still a very limited research has been done so far to assess the perception of international patients regarding travel to India for medical services. Objective: To assess the perception of the patients coming across international borders regarding their preference to chose India for medical services.Methods: This was a cross sectional hospital based study which was conducted for a period of 3 months. It was an analytical type of research where 100 international patients were interviewed from 11 different hospitals spread across whole India (representing North and South India). A semi-structured interview scheduled with a five point Likert type scale was used fulfill the objective of the study.Results: More than 80\% of patients were agree with the fact that there is deficiency of quality of care and proper infrastructure in health facilities in their country. majority (> 80\%) of patients were strongly agree or agree to the facts that India has top qualified medical professionals and latest technology for treatment, there is less waiting time for treatment procedure and the treatment is cost effective.Conclusion: Considering the perception of international patients, there is need and scope to improve and expand the health service delivery in India to reap the benefits of medical travel to the maximum possible extent.

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