2011
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2010.525871
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Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health

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“…Thus, social scientists studying cross-border medical travel generally have argued that this arises from economic, legal, social, religious or technological perceived constraints at ‘home’ and/or the sense of having reached a therapeutic impasse 7 18 19. In some communities, there may also be a cultural preference for particular styles of care provision.…”
Section: Return Medical Travel and Therapeutic Homelandsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, social scientists studying cross-border medical travel generally have argued that this arises from economic, legal, social, religious or technological perceived constraints at ‘home’ and/or the sense of having reached a therapeutic impasse 7 18 19. In some communities, there may also be a cultural preference for particular styles of care provision.…”
Section: Return Medical Travel and Therapeutic Homelandsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Resultantes de processos sociais e históricos particulares de cada país (Quintela, 2004(Quintela, , 2008(Quintela, , 2011, estas diferenças permitem pensar o termalismo enquanto actividade reguladora e de desenvolvimento das práticas termais, bem como geradora de terapias que se têm adequado a novas configurações sociais no campo da saúde, onde a noção de bem-estar é cada vez mais central. Com efeito, é com base nesta categoria que surge um conjunto de novas terapias associadas às tradicionais termas, terapias estas que vão para além do tratamento da doença (Nairandas & Bastos, 2011) e passam a focalizar-se na prevenção. É disto exemplo a legislação portuguesa de 2004 relativa à regulação do termalismo, pois inclui as duas vertentes -o "segmento de bem-estar" e o segmento de "termalismo clássico".…”
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“…A classic example is the concept of 'therapeutic landscapes,' a term coined by Gesler (1992) to describe how specific geographical formations such as rocks, mountains, or springs are seen as imbued with therapeutic forces. Closely related to this phenomenon is the idea of 'healing holidays' (Naraindas and Bastos 2011), a form of 'medical travel' (Sobo 2009) that people undertake to solve their health problems at specific sites. Another strand of thinking about the relationship between medical knowledge and the creation of specific spaces and sites is represented in the study of medical institutions, which in many parts of the world have left not only an accumulation of infrastructure but multiple layered and endurable architectonical imprints as part of colonial and missionary legacies (Street 2012).…”
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