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Framing Medical Tourism: An Examination of Appeal, Risk, Convalescence, Accreditation, and Interactivity in Medical Tourism Web Sites

Alicia Mason Department of Communication, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kevin B. Wright Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 163-177 | Published online: 15 Dec 2010

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