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B E A U T Y Beautyscapes is a fascinating and vibrant exploration of the rapidly developing S global phenomenon of international medical travel. Documenting the complex and C sometimes fraught journeys of those who travel abroad for treatment, this book focuses on patient-consumers and those who enable them to access treatment A abroad, including key figures such as surgeons and facilitators. P Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Beautyscapes draws on key E themes in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, S social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growing popularity of cosmetic surgery tourism. As well as looking at the nature and power relations of the transnational medical travel industry, the book challenges myths about vain and ill-informed travellers seeking surgery from ‘cowboy’ foreign doctors, yet BEAUTY also demonstrates the difficulties and dilemmas that medical tourists – especially cosmetic surgery tourists – face. 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 SCAPES Africa. It will be of interest to students and academics in Sociology, Geography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Health Studies and Tourism Studies. Ruth Holliday is Professor of Gender and Culture at the University of Leeds Meredith Jones is Reader in Gender and Media Studies, and Director of the Research Centre for Global Lives at Brunel University London David Bell is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Leeds MAPPING COSMETIC SURGERY TOURISM Cover design: Manchester University Press ISBN 978-1-5261-3425-7 Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell 9 781526 134257 www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Final Beautyscapes.indd 1 26/04/2019 15:21:27 Beautyscapes Beautyscapes Mapping cosmetic surgery tourism Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell Manchester University Press Copyright © Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell 2019 The right of Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 3425 7 hardback First published 2019 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire In memory of Debra Gimlin, Jane Sherratt and Brian Wilmot Contents List of plates page viii Acknowledgements xi 1 Clinical trails: researching cosmetic surgery tourism 1 2 Cosmetic investments 31 3 Locating cosmetic surgery tourism 63 4 The work of cosmetic surgery tourism I: caregiving companions and medical travel facilitators 86 5 The work of cosmetic surgery tourism II: health workers and patients 108 6 Community and little narratives 127 7 Decentring and disorienting cosmetic surgery tourism 144 8 Cosmetic convivialities and cosmopolitan beginnings 160 9 Conclusions 179 References 194 Index 211 viii List of plates 3.1b Advertisement in Gangbeong, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Olive Plates Cheung, project team) 3.1c Advertisement in Tunis, Tunisia (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 3.1d Advertisement in Marbella, Spain (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 3.2a Bed in clinic in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 3.2b Operating room in Apdugeong, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 1.1a Jason straight after surgery (Patient photo reproduced by 3.2c Clinic window, Marbella, Spain (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) permission) 3.2d Clinic registration area, Poland (Photo: Olive Cheung, project 1.1b Jason’s complication – ruptured stitches (Patient photo team) reproduced by permission) 3.3 Different types of breast implant on desk, Marbella, Spain 1.1c Jason’s infection (Patient photo reproduced by permission) (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 1.1d Jason’s final result, front (Patient photo reproduced by 4.1 Rollerblading hospital assistant at Yanhee Hospital, Bangkok permission) (Photo: Meredith Jones, project team) 1.1e Jason’s final result, side (Patient photo reproduced by permission) 5.1a Jawbone ‘shavings’ on display in the BK Clinic’s Cosmetic 1.2 Neil (UK to Czech Republic and Poland) demonstrating what he Surgery Museum, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, called his ‘mushroom’ after weight-loss surgery but before body project team) contouring (Patient photo reproduced by permission) 5.1b Display in the BK Clinic’s Cosmetic Surgery Museum, Seoul, 1.3 A bedside table in a Tunisian clinic (Photo: Kate Hardy, project South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) team) 7.1a Sue (Australia to Thailand) consultation, 26 May 2012 (Photo: 1.4a Durian street-seller in front of a budget Bangkok clinic (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) Meredith Jones, project team) 7.1b Sue post-operation, 28 May 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project 1.4b Waiting room, budget Bangkok clinic (Photo: Meredith Jones, team) project team) 7.1c Sue enjoying Thailand (1), 31 May 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, 1.5 Clinic Façade, Apgujeong district, Seoul, South Korea: Not a project team) happy bunny? (Photo: Olive Cheung, project team) 7.1d Sue enjoying Thailand (2), 1 June 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, 2.1a Hwang, day 1 (Patient photo reproduced by permission) project team) 2.1b Hwang, day 2 (Patient photo reproduced by permission) 7.1e Sue having her stitches removed, 2 June 2012 (Photo: Emily 2.1c Hwang, day 5 (Patient photo reproduced by permission) Hunter, project team) 2.1d Hwang, day 6 (Patient photo reproduced by permission) 7.1f Sue thanking her nurses, 2 June 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, 2.1e Hwang, day 7(1) (Patient photo reproduced by permission) project team) 2.1f Hwang, day 7(2) (Patient photo reproduced by permission) 7.2a Tourist facilities are used out of season by international medical 2.2a Non-medical silicone being squeezed from a PIP implant (Photo: tourists (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) Kate Hardy, project team) 7.2b A recovering patient taking a photo at her hotel in Tunisia 2.2b Ruptured implant silicone should stay in place like a ‘jelly baby’ (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) but PIP filling seeps through the body (Photo: Kate Hardy, 7.2c Marbella hotels used by medical tourists (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) project team) 3.1a Advertisement in Apdugeong, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Olive 8.1a A pile of refuse behind the hospital in Tunisia (Photo: Kate Cheung, project team) Hardy, project team) List of plates ix 3.1b Advertisement in Gangbeong, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Olive Cheung, project team) 3.1c Advertisement in Tunis, Tunisia (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 3.1d Advertisement in Marbella, Spain (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 3.2a Bed in clinic in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 3.2b Operating room in Apdugeong, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 3.2c Clinic window, Marbella, Spain (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 3.2d Clinic registration area, Poland (Photo: Olive Cheung, project team) 3.3 Different types of breast implant on desk, Marbella, Spain (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 4.1 Rollerblading hospital assistant at Yanhee Hospital, Bangkok (Photo: Meredith Jones, project team) 5.1a Jawbone ‘shavings’ on display in the BK Clinic’s Cosmetic Surgery Museum, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 5.1b Display in the BK Clinic’s Cosmetic Surgery Museum, Seoul, South Korea (Photo: Ruth Holliday, project team) 7.1a Sue (Australia to Thailand) consultation, 26 May 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.1b Sue post-operation, 28 May 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.1c Sue enjoying Thailand (1), 31 May 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.1d Sue enjoying Thailand (2), 1 June 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.1e Sue having her stitches removed, 2 June 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.1f Sue thanking her nurses, 2 June 2012 (Photo: Emily Hunter, project team) 7.2a Tourist facilities are used out of season by international medical tourists (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 7.2b A recovering patient taking a photo at her hotel in Tunisia (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 7.2c Marbella hotels used by medical tourists (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team) 8.1a A pile of refuse behind the hospital in Tunisia (Photo: Kate Hardy, project team)
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