Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism
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Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism.
This paper reports findings from a large-scale, multi-disciplinary, mixed methods project which explores empirically and theoretically the rapidly growing but poorly understood (and barely regulated) phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore CST by drawing on theories of flows, networks and assemblages, aiming to produce a fuller and more nuanced account of - and accounting for -...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.047