Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
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DOI：
10.1177/1468797611416607
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez
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作者：
Bell, David;Holliday, Ruth;Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez
本文探讨了美容手术旅游可以被认为是一种旅游体验的方式。我们认为，虽然基本上涉及旅行的目的是进行痛苦的手术，整容手术旅游有一个特殊的共鸣与假期，最通常被构造为放松和恢复。这种共鸣与当代社会的重要性有关，即不仅要拥有与旅行知识和显著休闲相关的文化资本，而且要能够通过身体标记并表达它。本文还探讨了旅游要素，似乎是一个成功的整容手术旅游体验的重要。这些包括一种地方感，通过文化和物理上的接近或距离构成，以及对目的地特定特征的话语和物理构建-最常见的是“撤退”，关怀和“友好”的概念。这与一系列工作人员，从外科医生和护士到口译员和导游，愿意从事成功的情感和美学劳动有关;这里概述了其中一些劳动形式。我们利用的材料往往集中在前往最富裕国家以外的目的地进行手术的白色、中产阶级西方游客身上。最后，我们呼吁进行更广泛的研究，并想知道整容手术旅游的“旅游性”是否仍然是游客的核心，他们旅行的唯一动机是以最低的成本找到手术。
This paper explores the ways in which cosmetic surgery tourism can be thought of specifically as a tourist experience. We argue that whilst essentially involving travel for the purpose of undertaking painful surgery, cosmetic surgery tourism has a particular resonance with the holiday, most usually constructed as relaxing and restorative. This resonance is connected to the importance in contemporary society of not simply possessing the cultural capital associated with travel knowledge and conspicuous leisure, but of being able to mark that upon and express it through the body. The paper also explores the elements of tourism that seem important to a successful cosmetic surgery tourism experience. These include a sense of place, constituted through cultural and physical proximity or distance, and discursive and physical construction of a destination's particular characteristics - most usually in terms of the idea of 'retreat' ,care and the 'friendliness' of its people. This is connected to the willingness of a range of staff, from surgeons and nurses to interpreters and tour guides, to engage in successful emotional and aesthetic labour; some of these forms of labour are outlined here. The material we draw upon has tended to centre on white, middle-class Western tourists travelling to destinations outside the wealthiest nations for their surgeries. We end with a call for more wide-ranging studies and wonder whether the 'tourism-ness' of cosmetic surgery tourism remains central to tourists whose only motivation for travel is finding surgeries at minimal cost.