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Locating cosmetic surgery tourism 63 3 Locating cosmetic surgery tourism It’s been quite helpful to see other girls who are going and who are there and seeing photos of them over there, seeing photos of them post-op. You see the whole journey and it’s really personal … Some have been having a bad time, they’ve been in more pain than they expected, whereas some of them are out on the back of elephants, so it’s good to see how everybody is different … and one girl got, like, an infection, you know. So, it’s not showing only the good side of the story. I hope
4 New frontiers in surgery: the case of uterus and penis transplantation1 Gennaro Selvaggi and Sean Aas Various types of organ transplantations are now considered standard procedures: heart and liver transplants lengthen lives; kidney transplants also do so, as well as improving quality of life by reducing or eliminating the need for dialysis. The transplantation of faces and limbs, a more novel set of techniques, improves quality of life without necessarily lengthening or ‘saving’ lives. An even more recent development is uterus and penis transplantations
of life-threatening risks’. 2 These myths persist, even as the actual demographics of surgery have changed. The profession has been open to women since the nineteenth century, and the percentage of female practitioners gradually increased over the second half of the twentieth century. 3 However, despite decades of gender parity in British medical education, today women remain under-represented in
institution’ and did not reflect society nor the changing profession of surgery. The report was published in March 2021 and is replete with personal testimonies of racism and discrimination: ‘I feel [as a Black surgeon] that I suffer a different level of scrutiny from other surgeons – and have access to much less support – and it can be very frightening.’ 1 As shown in the previous chapter , surgery is male
86 Beautyscapes: mapping cosmetic surgery tourism 4 The work of cosmetic surgery tourism I: caregiving companions and medical travel facilitators Our aim in the next two chapters is to outline the various forms of work or labour that are brought together to make cosmetic surgery happen.1 Through this focus on work we aim to provide a detailed overview of the cosmetic surgery tourism industry, focusing on the key actors whose work is central to the production of cosmetic surgery tourism. In this chapter we look closely at two key groups, one providing unpaid
108 Beautyscapes: mapping cosmetic surgery tourism 5 The work of cosmetic surgery tourism II: health workers and patients The previous chapter provided an overview of the structure of the cosmetic surgery tourism industry as a prelude to a detailed exploration of the forms of work undertaken by some of the key actors in the cosmetic surgery tourism assemblage. Basing our discussion in sociological debates about ‘new’ forms of work or labour – care work, body work, emotional labour and aesthetic labour – we showed how informal caregiving companions and MTFs
144 Beautyscapes: mapping cosmetic surgery tourism 7 Decentring and disorienting cosmetic surgery tourism While medical tourism historically has meant wealthy travellers leaving the Global South to seek treatment in the Global North, in the last few decades the direction of patient flows has changed. In academic work, medical tourism has commonly come to be conceptualised in terms of colonialism and orientalism: wealthy westerners exploiting low-wage economies in developing countries and experiencing them through a patronising ‘orientalist gaze’ – not liking
11 Trauma care, surgery and remedies in ancient Egypt: a reassessment Roger Forshaw I am pleased to be able to offer this new analysis of trauma care and surgery in ancient Egypt to Rosalie, as this is a topic of particular interest to her. Also I am grateful to Rosalie for inspiring me in my master’s and doctoral studies in Egyptology and for inviting me to join her team at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Trauma can be defined as any bodily injury or wound caused by an extrinsic agent. Evidence for trauma in a
211 7 Beyond the surgery boundaries: doctors’ organisations and activist medics Migrant South Asian GPs, by the very nature of their roles, became embedded in communities. GPs came in contact with a cross-section of the local population at regular intervals, often over long periods of time. They benefited from a great deal of professional autonomy in addition to having substantial amounts of social capital. They were therefore in a position to shape the social and political environment in which they found themselves. Doctors’ interviews and archives provide
Matthäus Purmann (1649–1711) considered surgery’s preeminence among the healing arts an unequivocable truth. The preface of his Wund-Artzney , first published in 1684, made a bold case. Purmann divided medicine into three parts: diet, pharmacy, and surgery. “Surgery and wound medicine,” he explained, “is the very oldest, first, and most splendid.” 1 A series of biblical references establish the antiquity of this craft, beginning with the prophet Isaiah’s use of a fig plaster