Care Work and Medical Travel: Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

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This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, Finland, Switzerland, and Russia.

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This volume is a groundbreaking addition to the scholarship on caring and care work in the context of medical travel. Offering compelling contributions from across the globe, this collection provides exciting new insights on mobility and the caring roles of a wide range of actors. It is an essential and powerful read.

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Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is senior research fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention at University College London.