Medical tourism in the backcountry: alternative health and healing in the Arkansas Ozarks [0.03%]
阿肯色州奥扎克的医疗旅游：另类健康与治疗โรงพยาบาลtourism ในภูมิภาคที่ห่างไกล: alternativ 헬스 및 치유 아칸소주 오자크
Justin M Nolan,Mary Jo Schneider
Justin M Nolan
Tourists travel to Arkansas' mountain regions to experience, appreciate, and consume multiple aspects of otherness, including sacred sites and pristine and authentic peoples and environments. A largely unexplored aspect of this consumption ...
Amit Sengupta
Amit Sengupta
The medical tourism sector in India has attracted global attention, given its phenomenal growth in the past decade. India is second only to Thailand in the number of medical tourists that it attracts every year. Estimates indicate that the ...
Andrew Mazzaschi
Andrew Mazzaschi
This essay explores how concepts of value and cheapness circulate around the bodies of clients of the Johannesburg-based cosmetic surgery tourism company Surgeon and Safari. I show how the production of a luxurious experience and the mitiga...
Alexander Edmonds
Alexander Edmonds
Along with a handful of other nations in the developing world, Brazil has emerged as a top destination for medical tourism. Drawing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in plastic surgery wards, this article examines diverse factors - som...
Annette B Ramírez de Arellano
Annette B Ramírez de Arellano
Although travel for medical reasons has a long history, it has more recently evolved from a cottage industry to a worldwide enterprise. A number of countries are positioning themselves to attract visitors who are willing to travel to obtain...
Fertility tourism: circumventive routes that enable access to reproductive technologies and substances [0.03%]
生育旅游：规避渠道使生殖技术和物质的获取成为可能
Sven Bergmann
Sven Bergmann
“Fertility tourism” is a journalistic eye‐catcher focusing on the phenomenon of patients who search for a reproductive treatment in another country in order to circumvent laws, access restrictions, or waiting lists in their home country....
Mary Gilmartin,Allen White
Mary Gilmartin
Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secu...
Jennifer Bair
Jennifer Bair
This article is both a review of, and an intervention in, the literature on gender and the globalization of production. Via a discussion of six key texts analyzing export-oriented manufacturing, ranging from Maria Mies's Lace Makers of Nars...
Aid effectiveness and women's empowerment: practices of governance in the funding of international development [0.03%]
援助效果与女性赋权：国际发展融资治理实践
Marie L Campbell,Katherine Teghtsoonian
Marie L Campbell
Although the empowerment of women is a prominent goal in international development, feminist development professionals, activists, and scholars remain deeply dissatisfied with the limited extent to which women's empowerment is actually achi...
Working through mass incarceration: gender and the politics of prison labor from east to west [0.03%]
从东西方看性别与监狱劳动的政治性：突破大规模监禁问题探讨的新路径
Lynne A Haney
Lynne A Haney
This article explores the politics and practices of labor in two penal institutions for women: a maximum security facility for women in Hungary and a community‐based facility for women in California. Diverging from other accounts of impris...