Kaspar, Heidi; Abegg, Alwin; Reddy, Sunita (2023). Of odysseys and miracles: A narrative approach on therapeutic mobilities for ayurveda treatment Social Science and Medicine, 334, p. 116152. Elsevier Science Direkt 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116152
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In the past two decades, health care has become a global market and transnational practice. An emerging body of literature examines the astounding variety of drivers, conditions, and experiences. However, the question of how traveling abroad for treatment emerges as an option and takes shape in people's illness trajectories has gained little attention thus far. This article attends to this gap by following the stories of people with chronic conditions who travel to India for Ayurveda treatment out of dissatisfaction with local biomedical health care. This study expands the focus of current research on transnational therapeutic mobilities in three ways: (1) by shifting the attention from being a foreign patient or medical traveler to becoming one, (2) by integrating quests for other-than-biomedical therapies, and (3) by applying a narrative approach to the field. Results show that apart from social, human, and financial resources, it takes certain patient-subjectivities to mobilize patients across borders and healing systems.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
School of Health Professions School of Health Professions > Institute for Participatory Health Care |
Name: |
Kaspar, Heidi 0000-0002-1668-5855; Abegg, Alwin and Reddy, Sunita |
Subjects: |
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
ISSN: |
0037-7856 | 0277-9536 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier Science Direkt |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Heidi Kaspar |
Date Deposited: |
11 Sep 2023 15:19 |
Last Modified: |
11 Sep 2023 15:19 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116152 |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: |
India Therapeutic mobilities Narrative approach Transnational medical travel |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.19906 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19906 |
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