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No. 57: Patients without Borders: Medical Tourism and Medical Migration in Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2012
Crush, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Thrombotic complications following bariatric surgery: how medical tourism poses challenges to comprehensive care in obesity medicine. [PDF]

Clin J Gastroenterol
Mandour MO, Bakewell R, Ong J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, Dinah Norman a‐Marrngawi, Mavis Timothy a‐Muluwamara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the performance of non-specialised private hospitals in Malaysia - an upper-middle-income medical tourism destination country using the Pabón-Lasso model. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Samsudin MF, Lim YC, Rochmah TN, Dahlui M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous in the contemporary practice of medicine, where they are tied to notions of hygiene and quality of care. However, when plastics first infiltrated global medical practice, they did so because of considerations related to patient comfort and durability.
Gauri Pathak
wiley   +1 more source

Erratum: Medical Tourism for Cancer Treatment: Trends, Trajectories, and Perspectives From African Countries. [PDF]

JCO Glob Oncol
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring the Potential of a Multi-Level Approach to Advance the Development of the Medical Tourism Industry in Indonesia. [PDF]

Health Serv Insights
Supriadi, Al Aufa B, Nurfikri A, Koire II.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

High prevalence of a host‐associated Anaplasma lineage in wild coatis (Nasua nasua) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Anaplasma sp. DNA was detected in 47.9% of free‐ranging coatis (Nasua nasua) sampled in Iguaçu National Park, southern Brazil. Molecular analyses revealed a genetically distinct Anaplasma lineage infecting coatis, differing from Anaplasma strains detected in associated tick populations.
Matheus Dias Cordeiro, Paulo César Magalhães‐Matos, Isadora dos Santos Dias, Jônathan David Ribas Chagas, Olívia Zen Gianfrancisco, Ellen Meireles Brandão, Claudia Bezerra da Silva, Bruna de Azevedo Baêta   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source