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By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated.

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated.

Beginning with an understanding of how disability and sexuality are socially defined phenomena, and illustrated by research drawn from a range of international contexts, this book is the first to examine this important but seldom acknowledged issue.

This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue that urban poverty and health inequalities are intimately interconnected, and the increasing disparity between rich and poor will necessarily exacerbate health issues within urban communities.

CrossDisciplinary and Critical Perspectives.