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Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism: local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia

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  • Heng Leng Chee
  • Andrea Whittaker
  • Heong Hong Por

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We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narratives, we see multiple mobilities articulate and cross-cut in the building of transnational connections. This paper stretches the concept of transnational social space to apply to medical travel and contributes to the literature framing of international medical travel as a complex and multifaceted arena.

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  • Heng Leng Chee & Andrea Whittaker & Heong Hong Por, 2019. "Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism: local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1), pages 87-102, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:14:y:2019:i:1:p:87-102
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1521124
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