Vincent Platenkamp

Key concepts in tourism research.

Introduction How to Use This Book Action Research Autoethnography Case Study Constructionism Content Analysis Critical Realism Critical Theory Deduction Delphi Method Document Analysis Empiricism Epistemology Ethical Practice Ethnomethodology Evaluation Research Experiment Feminism Figurationalism Grounded Theory Hermeneutics Interview/Focus Group Modeling Narrative Paradigm Phenomenology Positivism Post-Colonialism Postmodernism Realism Repertory Grid Survey Symbolic Interactionism Visual Methods

The discourse of medical tourism in the media

Purpose – Non‐discursive practices such as the economy and political constellations have always caused shifts in history. However, in the network society of today, these shifts have become omnipresent. Globalization of health and medical tourism have created a shift or rupture in the history of healthcare provision and into the lives of different stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to detect and assess the rupture caused by global health care or medical tourism within the field of the written media, in order to define the reality of medical tourism as a trans‐historical field.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of this study comprised an extensive discourse analysis of written and new media performed over a time frame of more than a decade. Market, medical, ethical and patient discourses were detected along scientific sources, international and local newspapers.Findings – Results indicate that a change in the market discourse has caused a shift in the attitude towards medical tourism, whe...

Diving into the contexts of in - between worlds: worldmaking in medical tourism

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Towards a Model of Sustainable Health Destination Management Based on Health Regions

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Framing and measuring international patient management

This chapter: Introduces the idea of a destination management framework for transnational health care. Considers the definitions and concepts that inform an analysis of transnational health care, governance and sustainability. Presents the building blocks of destination management, specifically stakeholder, ethical and branding theories. Demonstrates how the linkages between destination management and transnational health care are constructed. Demonstrates how regional development in relation to health and health care is an active practice in the EU.

Dionysus versus Apollo: an uncertain search for identity through dark tourism- Palestine as a case study

PURPOSE Hospitals need to determine if an international patient department is a necessity to communicate with and manage international patients. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A benchmarking instrument was created to assess the level of professionalism in managing international patients, including reviewing and validating processes by two university hospitals, professionals, and an expert panel. FINDINGS First, the differences between the hospitals depended on the will of the hospital to engage in such activities. Second, the differences depended on the embedding national context in which the hospital was situated. Further validation revealed the importance of other supportive services, such as cultural sensitivity and language. Finally, the microlevel phenomenon of international patient departments is placed within a macrolevel transnational health region development scheme. ORIGINALITY/VALUE This study focused on the supply of services with respect to international patient departments, which could be related to efficiency and sustainability on a public health and health systems level.

Habermas, Transnational Health Care and Cross-Culturalism

According to Nietzsche, European civilization has entered a phase of nihilism. The catastrophes of the twentieth century confirm this image. Adorno’s moral dictum that art and thinking become impossible after the Holocaust refers to this image (Isaac and Platenkamp, 2015; Tiedemann, 2003). Western morality has ended in a form of relativism that rejects any substantial value in the everyday life of the Western world (Mann 1948). This pessimistic line of thought leads to a devastating and completely relativized concept of identity. Identities are floating around without any point of anchorage. Nietzsche compares this situation to a state of passive nihilism in which no criterion can deliver the foundation of any identity. As an alternative to this nihilism, Nietzsche also talks about human tragedy. Nietzsche sees the origin of ancient Greek tragedy in the relation between Dionysus and Apollo—the birth of the tragedy in the first book by Nietzsche published in 1872. Nietzsche was at that time classics professor at Basle. He presents himself immediately as the great philosopher who is not confined to specialist considerations, but is searching for the bigger picture. The Birth of Tragedy is an early work, all the themes Nietzsche would elaborate upon in later works, including the will to power, moral criticism, the amor fati, and the eternal return.

Critical realism, rationality and tourism knowledge

The key arguments of this chapter are as follows: Transnational health care (THC) is a futuristic, coordinated and professionalised provision of cross-border health care and medical tourism services. It is an emergent field (Lunt et al., 2011) full of many opportunities, but it also holds risks. A conceptual basis is lacking, therefore the application of an established thought model — Habermas’ action theory — would be beneficial for understanding the nature and dynamics of THC. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the legacy of Jurgen Habermas and adapt it to the context of THC, in order to show the complex cross-cultural dynamics that play a role in THC.