Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals

249 Pages·2015·1.647 MB·English

by  Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Isabel Dyck

Bodies Across Borders
Detailing a new double movement of 21st century globalization, this compelling
collection of essays underlines that disembedded market forces have far from
disembodied or flattening outcomes on the ground. Instead, from global trade
in organs and sperm, to the cross-border movements of medical tourists and
healthworkers, we are introduced to worlds of extraordinarily uneven and unequal
embodiments of global interdependency – embodiments across borders which, as
the contributors explore with care, have vitally important implications for the
global body politic.
Matt sparke, University of Washington, UsA
This timely and fascinating collection explores a rich diversity of cultural,
economic and legal practices, vividly demonstrating the intense translational
flows of biomedical objects, practitioners and clientele which form part of
contemporary biomedicine and their important implications for how we navigate
the boundaries between ourselves and our nations.
Anne Kerr, University of Leeds, UK
Bodies Across Borders
The Global circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists
and Professionals
Edited by
BronWyn PArry
King’s College London, UK
BeTh GreenhoUGh
University of Oxford, UK
TiM BroWn And isABeL dycK
Queen Mary University of London, UK
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Parry, Bronwyn.
Bodies across borders : the global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and
professionals / by Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyck.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-5717-6 (hardback)
1. Medical tourism. 2. Medical tourism--Economic
aspects. 3. Organ trafficking. 4. Medical care. I. Greenhough, Beth. II. Brown, Tim.
III. Dyck, Isabel. IV. Title.
RA793.5.P37 2015
362.1--dc23
2014042800
ISBN 9781409457176 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315569598 (ebk)
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
1 Introduction 1
Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyck
Part I: CorPoreal CIrCulatIons
2 Biobanking Across Borders 15
Ruth Chadwick and Alan O’Connor
3 Masculinity Under the Knife: Filipino Men, Trafficking and the
Black Organ Market in Manila, the Philippines 29
Sallie Yea
4 A Bull Market? Devices of Qualification and Singularisation in the
International Marketing of US Sperm 53
Bronwyn Parry
Part II: transnatIonal BIo-medICal tourIsm
5 Transnational Health Care: Global Markets and Local
Marginalisation in Medical Tourism 75
John Connell
6 Bioethics, Transnational Health Care and the Global Marketplace
in Health Services 95
Leigh Turner
7 Risks and Challenges for Patients Crossing Borders for Infertility
Treatment 115
Wannes Van Hoof and Guido Pennings
vi Bodies Across Borders
Part III: mIgratIng medICal exPertIse
8 ‘Real Nursing Work’ versus ‘Charting and Sweet Talking’:
The Challenges of Incorporation into US Urban Health Care
Settings for Indian Immigrant Nurses 133
Sheba George
9 Nurses Across Borders: The International Migration of Health
Professionals 153
Stephen Bach
Part IV: regulatIng BodIes aCross Borders
10 Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Home and Destination
Country: Legal and Ethical Issues 173
Glenn Cohen
11 Race to the Bottom or Race to the Top? Governing Medical
Tourism in a Globalised World 191
Ingrid Schneider
12 Dislodging the Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Stem Cell-Based
Interventions from Medical Tourism 211
Tamra Lysaght and Douglas Sipp
Index 223
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Statement on benefit sharing 19
3.1 Al in front of his home in Baseco 41
3.2 Participants parodying the ‘spectacle’ of the scar 43
9.1 International and UK sources as a percentage of total new
admissions to the UK nursing register, 1989/90 to 2011/12 161
9.2 Admissions to the UK nursing register from EU countries and
non-EU countries, 1993/94 to 2011/12 162
Tables
7.1 Help received from local doctor (per cent) 120
7.2 Information received in own language (per cent) 123
9.1 Top 10 countries of qualification by primary medical qualification
(PMQ), 8 November 2012 160
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Notes on Contributors
Stephen Bach is professor of employment relations, Department of Management,
King’s College London. Stephen’s principal research activities relate to public
service HRM and changing workforce roles. His research interests include:
international migration of health professionals; new ways of working in the public
services; human resource management in the health sector; and the future of
public service trade unions. His work has been published in the British Journal of
Industrial Relations, Human Relations and Work, Employment and Society. His
books include: Employment Relations and the Health Service (Routledge, 2004)
and he is co-author of The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee
Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, with Ian Kessler). He is co-editor of
Managing Human Resources (Wiley, 2013, with Martin Edwards).
Tim Brown is a senior lecturer in the School of Geography, Queen Mary University
of London. His research has explored how ideas of risk and responsibility are
articulated as technologies of self-care in contemporary public health discourse.
More recently, he has applied the critical insights developed in this research into
other areas; notably, global health and food security and environment and health
in late-Victorian London. In addition to publishing widely in this area he co-edited
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), was
associate editor for health geography for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) and he is currently
working on Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015,
with Andrews, Cummins, Greenhough and Power). He is on the editorial board of
Health & Place.
Ruth Chadwick is professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester. From
2002–2013 she directed the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects
of Genomics (Cesagen) at Cardiff University. She co-edits Bioethics and Life
Sciences, Society and Policy, and she is a member of the Council of the Human
Genome Organisation. She has also served on the Panel of Eminent Ethical
Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO),
and the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP). She
is academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and fellow of the Learned
Society of Wales, Hastings Center, New York; of the Royal Society of Arts; and
of the Society of Biology. In 2005, she won the World Technology Network
Award for Ethics.