Diving into the contexts of in-between worlds: Worldmaking in medical tourism

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 743-754

  Mainil, Tomas ^a,b   Platenkamp, Vincent ^a   Meulemans, Herman ^b  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Enunciation; Hybridity; In between worlds; Medical tourism; Network society; Rupture; Worldmaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867334462     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12904412397860     Document Type: Review

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