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Possible Early Examples of Medical Tourism
- Source :
- The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 362:227-232
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Health tourism has hundreds of years of history, most notably in visitors traveling to thermal baths. Medical tourism, a type of health tourism, has rapidly expanded in the last quarter century by patients travelling abroad to health centers for medical treatment. Because of lack of records in ancient times, the history of tourism for actual medical treatment is unknown. In Ottoman archives, medical treatment consent forms of patients were officially documented. We analyzed these existing records to identify foreign citizens who came to the Ottoman Empire for medical treatment. In our screening of Konya Şer'iye registration records, we found medical consent forms for three non-Ottoman foreign citizens. All three patients had the same medical illness and came to Konya for medical treatment. Therefore we emphasized that those patients searched for the name of doctor who was an authority on that illness. This study indicates that medical tourism may have occurred well before the 20th century.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Medical treatment
business.industry
Medical tourism
Persia
General Medicine
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Health tourism
History, 17th Century
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medical Tourism
Ottoman empire
Informed consent
Medical illness
Family medicine
Humans
Medicine
Ottoman Empire
Registries
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Consent Forms
human activities
Tourism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00029629
- Volume :
- 362
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....183af0508c175aef8df86f587654f07b