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Bodies across borders : the global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and professionals edited by Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyck

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Surrey Ashgate 2015Description: 230 pages ill. 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409457176 (hbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA793.5
Summary: Introduction / Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyek --Part I: Corporeal Circulations. Biobanking across borders / Ruth Chadwick and Alan O'Connor -- Masculinity under the knife: Filipino men, trafficking and the black organ market in Manila, the Philippines / Sallie Yea -- A bull market? Devices of qualification and singularisation in the international marketing of US sperm / Bronwyn Parry -- Part II: Transnational Bio-Medical Tourism. Transnational health care: global markets and local marginalisation in medical tourism / John Connell -- Bioethics, transnational health care and the global marketplace in health services / Leigh Turner -- Risks and challenges for patients crossing borders for infertility treatment / Wannes Van Hoof and Guido Pennings -- Part III: Migrating Medical Expertise. 'Real nursing work' versus 'charting and sweet talking': the challenges of incorporation into US urban health care settings for Indian immigrant nurses / Sheba George -- Nurses across borders: the international migration of health professionals / Stephen Bach -- Part IV: Regulating Bodies Across Borders. Medical tourism for services legal in the home and destination country: legal and ethical issues / Glenn Cohen -- Race to the bottom or race to the top? Governing medical tourism in a globalised world / Ingrid Schneider -- Dislodging the direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell-based interventions from medical tourism / Tamra Lysaght and Douglas Sipp
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf RA793.5 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 150269 Available BK136901
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf RA793.5 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 150270 Available BK136904

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyek --Part I: Corporeal Circulations. Biobanking across borders / Ruth Chadwick and Alan O'Connor -- Masculinity under the knife: Filipino men, trafficking and the black organ market in Manila, the Philippines / Sallie Yea -- A bull market? Devices of qualification and singularisation in the international marketing of US sperm / Bronwyn Parry -- Part II: Transnational Bio-Medical Tourism. Transnational health care: global markets and local marginalisation in medical tourism / John Connell -- Bioethics, transnational health care and the global marketplace in health services / Leigh Turner -- Risks and challenges for patients crossing borders for infertility treatment / Wannes Van Hoof and Guido Pennings -- Part III: Migrating Medical Expertise. 'Real nursing work' versus 'charting and sweet talking': the challenges of incorporation into US urban health care settings for Indian immigrant nurses / Sheba George -- Nurses across borders: the international migration of health professionals / Stephen Bach -- Part IV: Regulating Bodies Across Borders. Medical tourism for services legal in the home and destination country: legal and ethical issues / Glenn Cohen -- Race to the bottom or race to the top? Governing medical tourism in a globalised world / Ingrid Schneider -- Dislodging the direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell-based interventions from medical tourism / Tamra Lysaght and Douglas Sipp

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