Complicating common ideas about medical tourism: Gender, class, and globality in yemenis' international medical travel

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Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 327-332

  Kangas, Beth ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL TOURISM; PLASTIC SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; YEMEN;

ARAB WORLD; CULTURE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MEDICAL TOURISM; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGERY, PLASTIC; YEMEN;

EID: 78650274963     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655912     Document Type: Article

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