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| Author: | Mainil T. Platenkamp V. Meulemans H. |
| Title: | The discourse of medical tourism in the media |
| Journal: | Tourism review
2011 : VOL. 66:1/2 p. 31-44 |
| Index terms: | medical care tourism ethics globalization |
| Freeterms: | print media |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The function of this paper is to detect and assess the rupture caused by global health care or medical tourism within the field of the written media, in order to define the reality of medical tourism as a trans-historical field. Results indicate that a change in the market discourse has caused a shift in the attitude towards medical tourism, where ethical voices are seen as submissive to the market logic. In the current time perspective, medical tourism has become more mature with the development of non-ethical counterparts such as organ tourism and reproductive tourism as a consequence. The research framework points that the general public receives a normative message from the medical tourism sector. |
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