Perceptions of an 'international hospital' in Thailand by medical travel patients: Cross-cultural tensions in a transnational space

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 290-297

  Whittaker, Andrea ^a   Chee, Heng Leng ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

International hospital; Medical tourism; Medical travel; Thailand; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; NATIONALISM; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOURISM;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; THAILAND; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; TRAVEL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; MEDICAL TOURISM; TRENDS;

THAILAND;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL TOURISM; PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITAL; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; THAILAND;

EID: 84920276490     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Andrews G.J., Shaw D. Clinical geography: nursing practice and the (re)making of institutional space. J.Nurs. Manag. 2008, 16:463-473.
2. Andrews M.M., Boyle J.S. Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia.
3. Augé M. Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity 1995, Verso, London.
4. Aungkasuvapala N. Health Tourism - the Rising Star: Strategies for Success. News room: Tourism Authority of Thailand e-magazine 2006, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Bangkok.
5. Bochaton A. The rise of a transnational healthcare paradigm. Thai hospitals at the crossroad of new patient flows. EJOTS Eur. J. Transnatl. Stud. 2013, 5:54-80.
6. Bochaton A., Lefebvre B. The rebirth of the hospital: Heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia. Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism 2009, 97-108. Routledge, Abingdon. T. Winter, P. Teo, T.C. Chang (Eds.).
7. Bookman M., Bookman K. Medical Tourism in Developing Countries 2007, Palgrave, New York.
8. Chanda R. Trade in health services. Trade in Health Services: Global, Regional and Country Perspectives 2002, 35-44. PAHO, Washington D.C. N. Drager, C. Vieira (Eds.).
9. Chee H.L. Medical Tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore. Glob. Soc. Policy 2010, 10:336-357.
10. Choy T.K. Articulated knowledges: environmental forms after Universality's Demise. Am. Anthropol. 2005, 107:5-18.
11. Connell J. Medical Tourism 2011, Cabi, Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
12. Foucault M. Governmentality. Ideol. Conscious. 1979, 5:5-21.
13. Gesler W. Therapeutic landscapes: medical issues in the light of the new cultural geography. Soc. Sci. & Med. 1992, 34:735-746.
14. Gesler W., Kearns R. Culture/Health/Place 2002, Routledge, London.
15. Gilmour J.A. Hybrid space: constituting the hospital as a home space for patients. Nurs. Inq. 2006, 13:16-22.
16. Han H. The healthcare hotel: distinctive attributes for international medical travelers. Tour. Manag. 2013, 36:257-268.
17. Kanchanachitra C., Lindelow M., Johnston T., Hanvorvongchai P., Lorenzo F., Nguyen L., Wilopo S., Frances Dela Rosa J. Human resources for health in Southeast Asia: Shortages, distributional challenges, and international trade in health services. Lancet 2011, 377(9767):769-781. 10.1016/s0140-6736(10)62035-1.
18. Kearns R.A., Barnett J.R. "Happy meals" in the Starship Enterprise: interpreting a moral geography of health care consumption. Health & Place 2000, 6:81-93.
19. Putting Health into Place: Landscape, Identity and Well-being 1998, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse N. Y. R.A. Kearns, W.M. Gesler (Eds.).
20. Low S.M. Towards an anthropological theory of space and place. Semiotica 2009, 175:21-37.
21. Noree T., Hanefeld J., Smith R. UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are. Glob. Health 2014, 10:29-35.
22. Ormond M. Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia 2013, Routledge, Abingdon.
23. Polaschek N.R. Cultural safety: a new concept in nursing people of different ethnicities. J.Adv. Nurs. 1998, 27:452-457.
24. Pordié L. Spaces of connectivity, shifting temporality. Enquiries in transnational health. EJOTS Eur. J. Transnatl. Stud. 2013, 5:6-26.
25. Rose G. Hybridity. Human Geography 2000, 364-365. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Malden, MA. R.J. Johnson, D. Gregory, G. Pratt, M. Watts (Eds.).
26. Smith R., Chandra R., Tangcharoensathien V. Trade in health-related services. Lancet 2009, 373:593-601.
27. Smith R., Martinez Ãlvarez M., Chanda R. Medical tourism: a review of the literature and analysis of a role for bi-lateral trade. Health Policy 2011, 103:276-282.
28. Toyota M., Chee H.L., Xiang B. Global track, national vehicle: Transnationalism in medical tourism in Asia. EJOTS: Eur. J. Transnatl. Stud. 2013, 5:27-53.
29. Tseng Wen-Shing, Streltzer J. Cultural Competence in Health Care 2008, Springer, New York.
30. Whittaker A. Pleasure and pain: medical tourism in Asia. Glob. Public Health: An Int. J. Res. Policy Pract. July 2008, 3:271-290.
31. Whittaker A. Outsourced patients: Stories from forced medical travellers. Travel Ideals: Engaging with Spaces of Mobility Conference, 18-20 July 2012, University of Melbourne.
32. Wibulpolprasert S., Pachanee C.A. Addressing the internal brain drain of medical doctors in Tailand. Glob. Soc. Policy 2008, 8(1):12-15.
33. Therapeutic Landscapes: The Dynamic between Place and Wellness 1999, University Press of America, Lanham. A. Williams (Ed.).
34. Wilson A. Medical tourism in Thailand. Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate 2010, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina. A. Ong, N. Chen (Eds.).
35. Wilson A. Foreign Bodies and national Scales: medical tourism in Thailand. Body Soc. 2011, 17:121-137.