National healthcare rhetoric beyond the nation
The materiality of narrative in cosmetic surgery tourism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Gimlin (University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 302-318 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468797614536335 |
| OpenAlex | W2103208763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article examines the narrative strategies employed by US and UK plastic surgeons’ associations to discredit the practice of aesthetic tourism. Cosmetic surgery tourism, one of a broad set of activities involving travel for medical care, represents a growing marketplace and, thus, a significant professional threat to aesthetic/plastic surgeons practising ‘at home’. Drawing from an analysis of five associations’ websites, I argue that their claims about aesthetic tourism’s dangers reflect the same repertoires of evaluation – that is, lines of argumentation deemed credible within particular national settings – employed by American and British consumers of cosmetic surgery to defend their actions as ‘deserved’ and ‘legitimate’. While evaluative repertoires are grounded in material conditions, those conditions allow for flexibility in their implementation. When US and UK physicians’ associations employ the narrative strategies made available by their own nation, they do so in ways that present cosmetic surgery – when conducted abroad – as ‘undeserved’ and ‘illegitimate’
Aesthetics · Art · Flexibility (engineering · Health care · Management · Materiality (auditing · Medical tourism · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Tourism · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Law · Medicine · Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies
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Health Tourism
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The British Regulatory State
Beauty Up
The social transformation of American medicine
Touring Cultures
The Dignity of Working Men
Introduction
Forms of valuing nature
The Dignity of Working Men
The Body and Social Theory
Bikinis and Bandages
A typology of cross-border patient mobility
The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing
Contemporary medical tourism
Medical tourism
Risk and the Responsible Health Consumer
Cosmetic Surgery
Universal Health Care
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
Explorations in consultation of the public and health professionals on priority setting in an inner London health district
Foreign Bodies and National Scales
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery in the USA and Great Britain
Identity as an Embodied Event
Pragmatic Sociology as Cultural Sociology
The poor have the right to be beautiful
Traveling for Medical Care in a Global World
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |