Background: The fertility tourism is a term refers to the cross-border movements made by infertile patients in order to receive reproductive treatment through assisted reproductive technology. In recent years the number of countries involved in medical tourism has been increased. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of crossborder reproductiv...

Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relev...

The U.S. state of Arizona shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora. The four Arizona counties on this border are Cochise, Santa Cruz, Pima, and Yuma. In 1996, the University of Arizona and the Arizona Department of Health Services conducted a diabetes survey in the city of Douglas, Cochise County, in conjunction with its U.S. community partners and Mexican counterparts (1). This partner...

Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relev...

Abstract This article describes a study based on qualitative approach that aimed to analyze the social representations of opinion makers about right and access health in cross-border territoriality Foz do Iguaçu-Paraná. To achieve goal, interviews were conducted with leaders movements, university professors, workers journalists. Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory was used focus three-dim...