Beautyscapes: mapping cosmetic surgery tourism

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Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growing popularity of international medical travel.

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Title Statements

Full title :Beautyscapes : mapping cosmetic surgery tourism / Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones, David Bell.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (colour) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781526134257, 152613425X
oclc:on1077947938
LC Classification:RA793.5
Dewey Decimal:306.4819

Clinical trails: researching cosmetic surgery tourism -- Cosmetic investments -- Locating cosmetic surgery tourism -- The work of cosmetic surgery tourism I: care-giving companions and medical travel facilitators -- The work of cosmetic surgery tourism II: health workers and patients -- Community and little narratives -- Decentring and disorienting cosmetic surgery tourism -- Cosmetic convivialities and cosmopolitan beginnings.

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Chirurgie plastique Cosmetic Techniques Health Services Accessibility -- econom… Medical Tourism Reconstructive Surgical Procedures Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Plastic -- ethics Surgery, Plastic / Tourism Surgery, Plastic / Travel Tourisme médical Traitement esthétique