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The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment argues that celebrity cases and media content drive awareness of medical tourism among Americans at a time when the medical system is under intense scrutiny. By popularizing international sites for treatment, procedures not available in the US, and different approaches to patient care, media narratives present options for health care, triggering dialogue on one of America's most important human welfare issues.

Medical tourism --- Celebrities. --- Medical care.

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This edited volume explores transnational gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being 'legally' exchanged for babies and 'reproductive labor' has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses significant issues in commercial gestational surrogacy as it plays out in a peculiar relation between the United States and India.

Surrogate motherhood --- Human reproductive technology industry --- Medical tourism --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- Medical instruments and apparatus industry --- Human reproductive technology --- Motherhood

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Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized “baby business,” the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price.Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as “holidays.” The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place.Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans’ journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.

Medical tourism. --- Fertilization in vitro. --- Fertility clinics. --- Political science / public policy / social security. --- Political science / public policy / social services & welfare. --- Fertility clinics --- Infertility --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Childlessness --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Fertility clinic services --- Fertility services --- Infertility clinics --- Infertility services --- Clinics --- Diseases

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Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access treatment abroad, including surgeons and facilitators. It documents the journeys of those who travel for treatment abroad, as well as the nature and power relations of the IMT industry. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Beautyscapes draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility to explain the nature and growing popularity of cosmetic surgery tourism. Richly illustrated with ethnographic material and with the voices of those directly involved in cosmetic surgery tourism, Beautyscapes explores cosmetic surgery journeys from Australia and China to East-Asia and from the UK to Europe and North Africa.

Surgery, Plastic. --- Medical tourism. --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Care. --- Class. --- Conviviality. --- Cosmetic surgery tourism. --- Cosmetic surgery. --- Flows and networks. --- Gender. --- International medical travel. --- Internet.

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"Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. Biomedical Odysseys looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating on the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. Priscilla Song shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy. Bringing together a decade of ethnographic research in hospital wards, laboratories, and online patient discussion forums, Song opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. She illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation. Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, Biomedical Odysseys is the first book to map the transnational life of fetal cell therapies."--

Hematopoietic stem cells --- Medical ethics --- Stem cells --- Medizinische Ethik --- Periphere Stammzellentransplantation --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Periphere Blutstammzellentransplantation --- Periphere Stammzellentransfusion --- Periphere Blutstammzellentransfusion --- PBST --- Peripheral stem cell transplantation --- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation --- Peripheral stem cell transfusion --- PBSCT --- Peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation --- Stammzellentransplantation --- Zelltransplantation --- Ärztliche Ethik --- Klinische Ethik --- Ärztliches Ethos --- Arzt --- Medizin --- Heilberuf --- Medizinethik --- Wissenschaftsethik --- Angewandte Ethik --- Bioethik --- Colony-forming units (Cells) --- Mother cells --- Progenitor cells --- Cells --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- HSCs (Hematopoietic stem cells) --- Blood cells --- Bone marrow cells --- Hematopoietic system --- Multipotent stem cells --- Transplantation --- Research --- Ethik --- Ethos --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ärztliche Ethik --- Ärztliches Ethos --- Human Embryonic Stem Cells --- Medical Tourism --- Therapies, Investigational --- S21/0500 --- transplantation --- psychology --- ethics --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc --- China. --- Mainland China --- Inner Mongolia --- Manchuria --- People's Republic of China --- Sinkiang --- Health Tourism --- Medical Tourists --- Surgical Tourism --- Medical Tourist --- Tourism, Health --- Tourism, Medical --- Tourism, Surgical --- Tourist, Medical --- Tourists, Medical --- 1949 --- -BNKhAU --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Catay --- Cathay --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- China --- Chine --- Chinese National Government --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Chung-hua min kuo --- Chung-kuo --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Cina --- Činská lidová republika --- Dumdad Uls --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Erets Sin --- Jhonggu --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- Khi͡atad --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Kin --- Kitad --- Kita --- Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika --- Kitajska --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- National Government --- P.R.C. --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- Republic --- Republic of China --- República Popular China --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- République Populaire de Chine --- RRC --- RRT --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- VR China --- VRChina --- Zhong guo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhonghuaminguo --- ALS. --- CareCure. --- Chinese clinicians. --- Chinese medicine. --- Chinese neurosurgeons. --- Dr. Huang Hongyun. --- Huang Hongyun. --- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. --- biomediation. --- biomedical practice. --- biomedical research protocols. --- biomedical science. --- biomedicine. --- chronicity. --- clinical experimentation. --- cybersociality. --- experimental medicine. --- experimental medicines. --- experimental surgery. --- experimental therapy. --- experimental treatment. --- fetal cell transplantation. --- foreign patients. --- hope. --- illness. --- institutional practice. --- market socialism. --- medical entrepreneurialism. --- medical entrepreneurs. --- medical practice. --- neurodegenerative condition. --- neurodegenerative disorders. --- neurosurgeon. --- olfactory ensheathing cells. --- olfactory ensheathing glia. --- online discussion forum. --- paralysis. --- patient activism. --- regenerative medicine. --- spinal cord injuries. --- spinal cord injury. --- surgical intervention. --- technonationalism. --- transplantation.