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Author Parry, Bronwyn

Title Bodies Across Borders : the Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I: CORPOREAL CIRCULATIONS; 2 Biobanking Across Borders; 3 Masculinity Under the Knife: Filipino Men, Trafficking and the Black Organ Market in Manila, the Philippines; 4 A Bull Market? Devices of Qualification and Singularisation in the International Marketing of US Sperm; PART II: TRANSNATIONAL BIO-MEDICAL TOURISM; 5 Transnational Health Care: Global Markets and Local Marginalisation in Medical Tourism
6 Bioethics, Transnational Health Care and the Global Marketplace in Health Services7 Risks and Challenges for Patients Crossing Borders for Infertility Treatment; PART III: MIGRATING MEDICAL EXPERTISE; 8 â#x80;#x98;Real Nursing Workâ#x80;#x99; versus â#x80;#x98;Charting and Sweet Talkingâ#x80;#x99;: The Challenges of Incorporation into US Urban Health Care Settings for Indian Immigrant Nurses; 9 Nurses Across Borders: The International Migration of Health Professionals; PART IV: REGULATING BODIES ACROSS BORDERS; 10 Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Home and Destination Country: Legal and Ethical Issues
Notes 11 Race to the Bottom or Race to the Top? Governing Medical Tourism in a Globalised World12 Dislodging the Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Stem Cell-Based Interventions from Medical Tourism
Print version record
Subject Medical care.
Medical tourism.
Medical tourism-Economic aspects
Organ trafficking.
Medical Tourism
Patient Care
Medical care
Medical tourism
Organ trafficking
Form Electronic book
Author Greenhough, Beth
Dyck, Isabel
ISBN 9781317173557
1317173554