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Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Medical Tourism and Inequity in India

The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare

Av Kristen Smith

Del i serien Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society

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In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores Indian private hospitals and their role in the global healthcare service supply chain within various religious, social, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. Drawing on critical medical anthropology theories as well as health and human rights perspectives, Smith problematizes the assumed independence between the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues, while highlighting the rapid transformation of healthcare services into merely another global commodity.For more information, check out A Conversation with Kristen Smith, author of Medical Tourism and Inequity in India: The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare
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Kristen Smith is senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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Kristen Smith has written a penetrating analysis revealing that medical tourism constitutes one more example of the unequal economic relationships between the Global North and the Global South. She argues that the while the medical tourist industry bills itself as a strategy for overcoming deficiencies in failing public health systems in countries like India, the juxtaposition of luxurious settings of international patient suites in corporate and even public hospitals and overcrowded and dilapidated wards of public hospitals belie this assertion. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years also poignantly illustrates the health divide between the affluent and the poor of the world system.

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