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Medical Tourism. --- Health. --- Turismo. --- Salud. --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Health tourism --- Tourism

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Geothermal springs constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a recognised value in treatments beneficial for health and wellness, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the natural environment. Health and wellness tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world’s tourism consumption, with components ranging from hot spring bathing for leisure and recreation, through mineral water use in health treatments under the supervision of highly specialised medical professionals, to water treatments in the wellness and beauty therapy sector and the use of mineral water for drinking purposes. This makes it an economically and socially important area of tourism demanding in-depth analysis. This book explores health and wellness tourism from a range of perspectives including usage, heritage, management, technology, environmental and cultural features, and marketing.

Health resorts. --- Medical tourism. --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- Health resorts, watering-places, etc. --- Health spas --- Spas --- Watering places (Health resorts) --- Health facilities --- Resorts --- Health resorts --- global spa and wellness industry. --- health and wellness concept. --- health tourism. --- hot spring tourism. --- hot springs. --- natural geothermal springs. --- natural hot springs. --- spa industry. --- wellness concept. --- wellness tourism.

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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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The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor. (Provided by publisher)

Transgender people --- Sex change. --- Medical tourism. --- Transgender Persons. --- Transsexualism. --- Sex Reassignment Procedures. --- Medical Tourism. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Geschlechtsumwandlung. --- Medizintourismus. --- Transgender. --- Travel. --- Sex change --- Medical tourism --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- TG people --- TGs (Transgender people) --- Trans-identified people --- Trans people --- Transgender-identified people --- Transgendered people --- Transgenders --- Transpeople --- Persons --- Travel --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Race --- Movies --- Healthcare --- Transgender --- Surgery --- Autobiography --- Book