Call for Papers
Regions & Development (20-21 June 2013,
Wageningen, NL)
&
Itineraries & Transformations (24-25 June 2013, Leeds,
UK)
An
international event co-sponsored by
and the
University of Leeds (UK)
At a moment in which the provision and regulation of health care within
national boundaries is profoundly shifting, the growing numbers of people going
abroad in pursuit of health care mean that the social, political and economic
significance and impacts of these flows at a range of levels cannot be ignored.
This symposium provides those involved in cutting-edge empirical
and conceptual studies of the transnational pursuit and provision of medical
care the opportunity to share their work, explore emerging research agendas and to encourage and foster future
research collaborations.
CFP - ‘Regions and development’ theme
20-21 June 2013, held at Wageningen University, The Netherlands
While thinking ‘regionally’ beyond borders is well-established in
economic development discourses and practices, studies of health care have long
been restricted to the confines of ‘methodological nationalism’. Yet several
recent initiatives – such as the recent European Union directive on patient
mobility, the harnessing of cross-border patient flows between Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states, and budding joint promotion of
the Caribbean region as a medical travel destination – have specifically
demonstrated the relevance of the transnational region relative to emerging
post-national understandings of supply, demand and responsibility in health
care.
In recognition of the array of initiatives around the
world that challenge and move beyond attempts at self-sufficiency in health
care at the national level, this workshop seeks to
draw attention to the breadth of regional
capacity-building, forms of governance, relations and identities forged through the international pursuit and provision
of medical care. The workshop specifically focuses on exploring the link
between transnational health care and regional development, produced through
both higher-profile, long-distance pursuits of medical tourists and more
‘everyday’ cross-border and intra-regional health-motivated movements.
We
encourage the submission of abstracts on topics that include
but are not limited to:
·
The analysis of
transnational health policies (bi-lateral agreements/regional approaches)
·
Potential for transnational regions to benefit from economies of scale by pooling health resources and patients
·
The use of health
care in transnational regional identity constructions and claims
·
The role of diaspora
in linking sending and receiving contexts through transnational health care
CFP - ‘Itineraries and Transformations’ theme
25-26 June 2013, held at University of Leeds, UK
This workshop will bring together key researchers in the emerging
interdisciplinary field of medical tourism studies, to explore experiences of
medical tourism and mappings of the industry. Drawing together diverse
empirical studies with emerging theoretical frameworks, the workshop will
facilitate dialogue and focused discussion, enabling empirical scaling-up, data
comparison, theoretical developments, methodological conversations – in short,
to establish the priorities and agendas for the vital shared project of
empirically and conceptually investigating the multi-scalar relational
geographies, from the level of the macro/national to the local/embodied,
currently transforming policies, economies, professions and patient experiences
of medical travel. This event will also launch the findings of a large,
multi-site, ESRC-funded research project on cosmetic surgery tourism, as well
as reporting progress on other large medical tourism studies in the UK, Canada
and beyond.
We
encourage the submission of abstracts on topics that include
but are not limited to:
- Empirical and conceptual studies of specific medical tourisms or locations
- Innovative methodologies and methods for researching medical travel
- National and trans-national medical cultures and their impacts on medical mobilities and ‘translations'
- New and emerging agendas for transnational healthcare research
Abstract submission
Please submit
abstracts of no more than 250 words electronically by Sunday, 3 February 2013
to the symposium organisers, Ruth Holliday (r.holliday@leeds.ac.uk), Tomas Mainil (mainil.t@nhtv.nl) and Meghann Ormond (meghann.ormond@wur.nl). Those authoring successful submissions will be contacted by Friday,
15 February 2013.
Confirmed participation in the symposium (alphabetical order)
Rita Baeten (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands); David Bell (University of Leeds, UK);
David Botterill (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands), I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard University, USA); John Connell (University of Sydney, Australia); Valorie Crooks (Simon Fraser
University, Canada); Irene Glinos (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands); Ruth Holliday (University of Leeds, UK); Meredith Jones
(University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Neil Lunt (York University, UK);
Tomas Mainil (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands);
Meghann Ormond (Wageningen University, The Netherlands); Elspeth Probyn
(University of Sydney, Australia); Andrea Whittaker (Monash University, Australia)
