Introduction: Medical tourism or movement for healthcare? Reflections on (inter-)national cross-border mobility

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Margret Frenz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-8969

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1 See also, for instance, http://www.themedicaltouristcompany.com/default.aspx; https://www.clements.com/resources/articles/Top-5-Countries-for-Medical-Tourism; http://www.medicaltourismassociation.com/en/index.html, all accessed 12 April 2017.

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Funding

This introduction and the papers in this collection were produced with the assistance of a grant under the Indian-European Research Networking Scheme, and the editor and authors are grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/K005901/1], the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Indian Council of Social Science Research for their support.