Medical tourism is a global health services practice enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization that, according to industry reports, is growing [ 2– 5].
The protests themselves have become global movements, and one of their clearest objectives is the democratization of globalizing processes.
Third, transnational feminists focus on specific globalizing processes, such as the growth of offshore manufacturing, rather than a theorized global patriarchy, and often take existing transnational feminist collectives as a model for their theoretical accounts of solidarity.
As the globalizing processes intensify over time, the indirect impacts of human-induced disruption of global biogeochemical cycles and global climate change, and their impacts on human health, may start to become more apparent [ 42, 43].
Because of their wealth and education, because globalizing processes lend them prestige and enable them to communicate constantly with Hindus living in South Asia, and because their experience as minorities tends to set them apart from their families in India itself, their contribution to the evolution of Hinduism has been a very interesting one.
Inequalities of access to and control over aspects of globalizing processes may reflect older patterns of subordination and order, even while the process produces new ones by excluding some communities from financial markets and by making others more vulnerable to its increased volatility (Hurrell and Woods 1999).
Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients' intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country.
"This originally European phenomenon," Mr. Elsaesser writes, "has globalized itself, and in the process has created not only a self-sustaining, highly self-referential world for the art cinema, the independent cinema and the documentary film, but a sort of 'alternative' to the Hollywood studio system" in its current incarnation.
So a key take-away of the Arab Spring must be that far from a process by which globalized radical ideology was used to topple local governments, it was individuals and families, angry and committed to a better life as people, who used global resources to help them topple corrupt and brutal dictators.
Although the whole world is not globalized, all regions have critical processes that are supported by globalized networks (Castells 2008).
