Leigh Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7283-6809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The politics of evidence in online illness narratives
This article addresses the growing trend of crowdfunding for unproven stem cell-based treatments. Our analysis uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from two popular fundraising sites to examine how these sites are used to fund purported stem cell 'treatments' or 'therapies'. In addition to mapping the use and success of these online campaigns by people with different health conditions in different locations, we consider the breakthrou…
“Ensure that you are well aware of the risks you are taking…”
Given that a key feature of public health is to use research findings to develop interventions and policies intended to promote health and reduce risks to individuals and populations, the paper draws upon major points of advice offered by study participants to take the first steps toward the development of an informational intervention designed specifically for the health and safety needs of medical tourists' caregiver companions. While additiona…
“You’re dealing with an emotionally charged individual…”
BACKGROUND: Patients engage in medical tourism when they privately obtain a medical care abroad. Previous research shows that many medical tourists travel abroad with friends and family members who provide support and assistance. Meanwhile, very little is known about this important stakeholder group, referred to here as caregiver-companions. In this article we examine the challenges that can be posed by caregiver-companions and the overall practi…
Understanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados
Stakeholders interviewed who were connected to medical tourism expansion or the tourism sector took a generally positive view of the likely impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados. However, stakeholders associated with the public health system and health equity expressed concern that medical tourism may spread inequities in this country. The mechanisms by which observed negative health equity impacts in other countries wi…
Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators
This is the first study to examine informal caregiving roles in medical tourism. Many of the roles identified are similar to those of conventional informal caregivers while others are specific to the transnational context. We conclude that these roles make informal caregivers an integral part of the larger phenomenon of medical tourism. We further contend that examining the roles taken on by a heretofore-unconsidered medical tourism stakeholder g…
Beyond "medical tourism"
BACKGROUND: Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as for-profit clinics found in several Canadian provinces. Canadians travel abroad for orthopaedic surgery, bariatric surgery, ophthalmologic surgery, stem cell injections, "Liberation therapy" for multiple sclerosis, and additional …
News Media Reports of Patient Deaths Following ‘Medical Tourism’ for Cosmetic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery
Contemporary scholarship examining clinical outcomes in medical travel for cosmetic surgery identifies cases in which patients traveled abroad for medical procedures and subsequently returned home with infections and other surgical complications. Though there are peer‐reviewed articles identifying patient deaths in cases where patients traveled abroad for commercial kidney transplantation or stem cell injections, no scholarly publications documen…
Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global phenomenon of medical tourism, to date websites of medical tourism companies have received limited scrutiny. This article analyzes websites of Canadian medical tourism companies that advertised international healthcare but ultimately …
Promoting medical tourism to India
The English Surgeon – Directed and Produced by Geoffrey Smith
First World Health Care at Third World Prices’
Social science and bioethics
It is no surprise that bioethics and sociology developed an adversarial relationship: bioethicists value the clear descriptions of ethically charged situations provided by social scientists, but doubt the ability of those trained in social science to logically derive and discern 'the good'. For their part, social scientists - experts in observing and collecting data about the way the world is- find bioethicists ignorant of the ways elegantly craf…
Public Goods, Private Goods
Television on the Cutting Edge
Television on the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery Goes Prime-TimeReality television programs that focus on cosmetic surgery show misguided viewers that such procedures are the key to emotional health and well-being
Republicanism
Doffing the Mask
Bioethics and end-of-life care in multi-ethnic settings
This paper addresses cultural dimensions of end-of-life care in Canada and the USA. In both countries contemporary health care providers commonly encounter patients with quite variable understandings of what constitutes compassionate end-of-life care. Participation in particular ethnic and religious groups can have a significant effect upon how patients and their families communicate with health care providers, make decisions about treatment alte…
Medical facilities as moral worlds
Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or atmosphere of particular dwellings. Architecture, in…
Research Notes
Euthanasia and distinctive horizons of moral reason
Rather than articulating and defending a particular normative stance concerning assisted suicide and euthanasia, attention here is directed toward the background, often tacit, interpretive horizons within which such judgements are formulated. Historical transformations can alter the contours of moral reflection, so that what is construed as “reasonable” and “common sensical” can shift over time. When core presuppositions constituting the public m…
Promoting medical tourism to India
Social science and bioethics
It is no surprise that bioethics and sociology developed an adversarial relationship: bioethicists value the clear descriptions of ethically charged situations provided by social scientists, but doubt the ability of those trained in social science to logically derive and discern 'the good'. For their part, social scientists - experts in observing and collecting data about the way the world is- find bioethicists ignorant of the ways elegantly craf…
Medical facilities as moral worlds
Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or atmosphere of particular dwellings. Architecture, in…
Doffing the Mask
The politics of evidence in online illness narratives
This article addresses the growing trend of crowdfunding for unproven stem cell-based treatments. Our analysis uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from two popular fundraising sites to examine how these sites are used to fund purported stem cell 'treatments' or 'therapies'. In addition to mapping the use and success of these online campaigns by people with different health conditions in different locations, we consider the breakthrou…
Research Notes
Euthanasia and distinctive horizons of moral reason
Rather than articulating and defending a particular normative stance concerning assisted suicide and euthanasia, attention here is directed toward the background, often tacit, interpretive horizons within which such judgements are formulated. Historical transformations can alter the contours of moral reflection, so that what is construed as “reasonable” and “common sensical” can shift over time. When core presuppositions constituting the public m…
Bioethics and end-of-life care in multi-ethnic settings
This paper addresses cultural dimensions of end-of-life care in Canada and the USA. In both countries contemporary health care providers commonly encounter patients with quite variable understandings of what constitutes compassionate end-of-life care. Participation in particular ethnic and religious groups can have a significant effect upon how patients and their families communicate with health care providers, make decisions about treatment alte…
Medical facilities as moral worlds
Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or atmosphere of particular dwellings. Architecture, in…
Doffing the Mask
Television on the Cutting Edge
Television on the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery Goes Prime-TimeReality television programs that focus on cosmetic surgery show misguided viewers that such procedures are the key to emotional health and well-being
Republicanism
Public Goods, Private Goods
Social science and bioethics
It is no surprise that bioethics and sociology developed an adversarial relationship: bioethicists value the clear descriptions of ethically charged situations provided by social scientists, but doubt the ability of those trained in social science to logically derive and discern 'the good'. For their part, social scientists - experts in observing and collecting data about the way the world is- find bioethicists ignorant of the ways elegantly craf…
First World Health Care at Third World Prices’
The English Surgeon – Directed and Produced by Geoffrey Smith
Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global phenomenon of medical tourism, to date websites of medical tourism companies have received limited scrutiny. This article analyzes websites of Canadian medical tourism companies that advertised international healthcare but ultimately …
Promoting medical tourism to India
Beyond "medical tourism"
BACKGROUND: Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as for-profit clinics found in several Canadian provinces. Canadians travel abroad for orthopaedic surgery, bariatric surgery, ophthalmologic surgery, stem cell injections, "Liberation therapy" for multiple sclerosis, and additional …
News Media Reports of Patient Deaths Following ‘Medical Tourism’ for Cosmetic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery
Contemporary scholarship examining clinical outcomes in medical travel for cosmetic surgery identifies cases in which patients traveled abroad for medical procedures and subsequently returned home with infections and other surgical complications. Though there are peer‐reviewed articles identifying patient deaths in cases where patients traveled abroad for commercial kidney transplantation or stem cell injections, no scholarly publications documen…
“You’re dealing with an emotionally charged individual…”
BACKGROUND: Patients engage in medical tourism when they privately obtain a medical care abroad. Previous research shows that many medical tourists travel abroad with friends and family members who provide support and assistance. Meanwhile, very little is known about this important stakeholder group, referred to here as caregiver-companions. In this article we examine the challenges that can be posed by caregiver-companions and the overall practi…
Understanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados
Stakeholders interviewed who were connected to medical tourism expansion or the tourism sector took a generally positive view of the likely impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados. However, stakeholders associated with the public health system and health equity expressed concern that medical tourism may spread inequities in this country. The mechanisms by which observed negative health equity impacts in other countries wi…
Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators
This is the first study to examine informal caregiving roles in medical tourism. Many of the roles identified are similar to those of conventional informal caregivers while others are specific to the transnational context. We conclude that these roles make informal caregivers an integral part of the larger phenomenon of medical tourism. We further contend that examining the roles taken on by a heretofore-unconsidered medical tourism stakeholder g…
“Ensure that you are well aware of the risks you are taking…”
Given that a key feature of public health is to use research findings to develop interventions and policies intended to promote health and reduce risks to individuals and populations, the paper draws upon major points of advice offered by study participants to take the first steps toward the development of an informational intervention designed specifically for the health and safety needs of medical tourists' caregiver companions. While additiona…
The politics of evidence in online illness narratives
This article addresses the growing trend of crowdfunding for unproven stem cell-based treatments. Our analysis uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from two popular fundraising sites to examine how these sites are used to fund purported stem cell 'treatments' or 'therapies'. In addition to mapping the use and success of these online campaigns by people with different health conditions in different locations, we consider the breakthrou…
Political science (14 works) · Health care (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Travel-related health issues (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Medical tourism (7 works) · Nursing (7 works)