A case of medical tourism?
The reception of foreign patients in Sfax (Tunisia) in exclusively private healthcare facilities raises questions about the place of medical tourism in patient-caregiver relationships. While medical tourism is a decried notion, it is above all part of an economic and globalized vision of health exch...
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| description | The reception of foreign patients in Sfax (Tunisia) in exclusively private healthcare facilities raises questions about the place of medical tourism in patient-caregiver relationships. While medical tourism is a decried notion, it is above all part of an economic and globalized vision of health exchanges. Mobilities for medical reasons are local and constrained rather than chosen, within a global market. However, the case of Sfax shows that medical tourism is also a specific governmentality, constructed by supply and demand, outside the standards of mass tourism. First of all, informal practices surrounding care produce a form of “desire” for Sfax, also embedded in the neoliberal context surrounding the development of this activity. This gives the biopolitical reading a transcalar and analytical force of the phenomenon of medical tourism, within transnational care spaces. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dfd1c6321e244cb7b80913f8948f7e592025-01-30T14:05:19ZdeuAssociation Via@Via@2259-924X2022-08-012110.4000/viatourism.8590A case of medical tourism?Théo MauretteSami Ben FguiraThe reception of foreign patients in Sfax (Tunisia) in exclusively private healthcare facilities raises questions about the place of medical tourism in patient-caregiver relationships. While medical tourism is a decried notion, it is above all part of an economic and globalized vision of health exchanges. Mobilities for medical reasons are local and constrained rather than chosen, within a global market. However, the case of Sfax shows that medical tourism is also a specific governmentality, constructed by supply and demand, outside the standards of mass tourism. First of all, informal practices surrounding care produce a form of “desire” for Sfax, also embedded in the neoliberal context surrounding the development of this activity. This gives the biopolitical reading a transcalar and analytical force of the phenomenon of medical tourism, within transnational care spaces.https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/8590geographyTunisiabiopoliticsmobilitymedical tourismtransnational care space |
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