Foreign bodies and national scales: Medical tourism in Thailand

Body and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 121-137

  Wilson, Ara ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; economy; geography; globalization; medicine; nation state

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958702937     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X11400923     Document Type: Article

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