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

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