Generating Ambivalence
Media Representations of Canadian Transplant Tourism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey Mckay (0000-0002-2071-3943, Brock University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 322-341 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v10i2.1421 |
| OpenAlex | W2593467951 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article addresses transplant tourism as one facet of the international organ trade. It asks whether mainstream media portrayals of Canadian transplant tourist journeys convey messages supportive of stronger efforts to stop extra-territorial organ purchase. A postcolonial theoretical approach using Mary Louise Pratt’s study of travel writing is employed to conduct a discourse analysis of Canadian media and cultural representation from 1988 to 2015. The public learns that transplant tourism is “bad” but understandable, and either not our problem or a symptom of another problem. Three forms this message takes are: the broader organ trade is a distant and insurmountable problem; transplant tourists are innocent victims; and, resolution of a larger, national organ scarcity problem will end transplant tourism. I conclude that the media generates ambivalence towards the issue of transplant tourism. Reader attention is drawn away from health outcomes and human rights, especially of organ providers – reasons Canada might do more to stop transplant tourism – towards the challenges faced by transplant tourists, with the effect of eclipsing public discussion of whether and how to stop Canadians from buying organs in other countries
Ambivalence · Economics · Mainstream · Newspaper · Organ donation · Organ transplantation · Political science · Public relations · Representation (politics · Scarcity · Sociology · Tourism · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Law · Medicine · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Travel-related health issues · Transplantation
The cultural biography of things
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Public Attitudes Toward the Ethics of Organ Donation
Organ economy
The transplant imaginary
Globalization and the Trade in Human Body Parts
The Role of Journalism in Democratic Conflict Management
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
The global reproductive health market
Framing
Writing Liminal Landscapes
Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia
The 1987 Distinguished Lecture
"Living Cadavers" in Bangladesh
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
Human rights and world culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |