Controversial Travels of Medical Tourism
Journal Title: Folia Turistica - Year 2016, Vol 40, Issue
Abstract
Purpose. Description - based on the review of Polish and English literature - of some controversial categories of travel included in medical tourism and known as circumvention tourism. The following types of “tourism” were analyzed: abortion, fertility, suicide, FGM (female genital mutilation) as well as transplant and surgical reassignment surgery tourism. We also undertook an attempt to outline the profile and the motives of participants of such trips.
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Klaudyna Kowalska
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