Medical Tourism and Inequity in India: The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare

by Kristen Smith

In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores Indian private hospitals and their role in the global healthcare service supply chain within various religious, social, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. Drawing on critical medical anthropology theories as well as health and human rights perspectives, Smith problematizes the assumed independence between the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793644195
• ISBN13: 9781793644190
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"