Sun, Surgery and Cyberspace: The Role of the Internet in the Rise of Medical Tourism
Sun, Surgery and Cyberspace: The Role of the Internet in the Rise of Medical Tourism
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太阳、手术和网络空间：互联网在医疗旅游兴起中的作用
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10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch015
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发表时间：
2010
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J. Eades
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J. Eades
在过去的几年中，媒体和旅游业越来越关注所谓的“医疗旅游”，有时也称为“健康”或“保健”旅游。对 LexisNexis 世界主要消息来源数据库的搜索显示，在 2000 年左右之前，媒体几乎没有提及这些内容（表 1）。据LexisNexis统计，各大通讯社和报纸提及医疗旅游的新闻数量从1990年左右的零上升到目前的2000多条，其中大部分增长发生在2003年之后。从某种意义上说，医疗旅游有着悠久的历史，正如一些互联网信息网站热衷指出的那样。几千年来，人们一直在旅行寻求医疗，无论是在抽象中
In the last few years, increasing attention has been paid by the media and the tourist industry to what has become known as “medical tourism” sometimes also called ‘health’ or ‘wellness’ tourism. Before around 2000, these were hardly mentioned by the media at all, as a search of the LexisNexis database of major world sources shows (Table 1). According to LexisNexis, the number of news items from major news agencies and newspapers which mentioned it rose from zero around 1990, to over 2000 at present, and most of this increase has occurred since 2003. In one sense, medical tourism has a long history, as some of the information sites on the Internet are eager to point out. People have been travelling in search of medical treatment for millennia, whether in ABSTRACT