Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
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10.1080/0966369x.2013.832655
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2015-01
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R. Holliday;David Bell;Meredith Jones;Kate Hardy;Emily Hunter;E. Probyn;J. Taylor
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作者：
R. Holliday;David Bell;Meredith Jones;Kate Hardy;Emily Hunter;E. Probyn;J. Taylor
美容外科旅游是医疗旅游的一个重要和不断增长的领域。本文通过对西班牙、捷克共和国和泰国的目的地网站的分析，探讨了不同地理位置的整容手术旅游的性别结构。我们研究性别和身份的其他交叉点与空间，地点和旅行的概念相互作用的方式，以构建特定的位置和整容手术的旅游体验。本研究也探讨了美容手术风险论述中的技巧、规范与卫生的相关地理学。我们的结论是，帐户生产整容手术旅游作为无差别的经验，“非地方”未能承认复杂的建设，具体的目的地在宣传材料，针对国际消费者在全球市场。
Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surgery tourist experiences. The relational geographies of skill, regulation and hygiene in discourses of cosmetic surgery risk are also explored. We conclude that accounts producing cosmetic surgery tourism as undifferentiated experience of ‘non-place’ fail to acknowledge the complex constructions of specific destinations in promotional materials targeting international consumers in a global marketplace.