medical mobilities: February 2011

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Special issue of the journal Signs dedicated to international medical travel

Signs, Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 2011: Special issue based on the Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Gender and Medical Tourism

Edited by Andrew Mazzaschi and Emily Anne McDonald

Here's the TOC:

Mary Gilmartin; Allen White. 'Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights' (pp. 275-280). DOI: 10.1086/655907. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655907

Sven Bergmann. 'Fertility Tourism: Circumventive Routes That Enable Access to Reproductive Technologies and Substances' (pp. 280-289). DOI: 10.1086/655978.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655978.

Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano. Medical Tourism in the Caribbean (pp. 289-297). DOI: 10.1086/655908. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655908

Alexander Edmonds. “Almost Invisible Scars”: Medical Tourism to Brazil (pp. 297-302). DOI: 10.1086/655909.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655909

Andrew Mazzaschi. 'Surgeon and Safari: Producing Valuable Bodies in Johannesburg' (pp. 303-312). DOI: 10.1086/655941. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655941

Amit Sengupta. Medical Tourism: Reverse Subsidy for the Elite (pp. 312-319). DOI: 10.1086/655910. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655910

Justin M. Nolan; Mary Jo Schneider. Medical Tourism in the Backcountry: Alternative Health and Healing in the Arkansas Ozarks (pp. 319-326). DOI: 10.1086/655911. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655911

Beth Kangas. Complicating Common Ideas about Medical Tourism: Gender, Class, and Globality in Yemenis’ International Medical Travel (pp. 327-332). DOI: 10.1086/655912. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655912

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

CFP: Proposed special issue of Gender, Place and Culture

CFP: Proposed special issue of Gender, Place and Culture: Bodies Across Borders: The global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and medical professionals

Editors: Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown, Isabel Dyck and Bronwyn Parry

The fields of medicine and healthcare are being transformed by new communications and biomedical technologies, which have facilitated marked increases in the global circulation of body parts, patients and medical professionals across national borders. These movements often echo other movements of capital and resources, travelling from rural to urban areas, from poor to rich, and from the Global South to the Global North with implications for global health, access to medical professionals, healthcare services and body-parts, and for national and international monitoring and regulation. This special issue seeks to bring a feminist perspective to understanding the global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and medical professionals, highlighting how questions of gender and sexuality shape and are shaped by the movement of bodies across borders in pursuit of health, scientific knowledge and profit.

Possible topics for papers include:
- The role of female bodies as sources of bodily commodities
- The migration of female healthcare workers
- Medical tourism/reproductive tourism
- Women as subjects of clinical trials

They are looking for 5-6 papers to complete an invited proposal for a special issue.
Please send abstracts to Beth Greenhough (b.j.greenhough [at] qmul.ac.uk) by the 7th March 2011.

Global Social Policy

The Dec 2010 issue of the journal Global Social Policy is dedicated to international medical travel issues. Here's the TOC (http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/current):

Chee Heng Leng and Andrea Whittaker
Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue: Why is medical travel of concern to global social policy? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 287-291, doi:10.1177/1468018110379627

Meri Koivusalo
Global Social Policy Forum: Introduction: Trade in health services and the commercialization of social and health policies Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 292-293, doi:10.1177/1468018110379689

Chantal Blouin
Trade in health services: Can it improve access to health care for poor people? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 293-295, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030202

Alireza Bagheri
Global health regulations should distinguish between medical tourism and transplant tourism Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 295-297, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030203

David Hunter and Stuart Oultram
The ethical and policy implications of rogue medical tourism Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 297-299, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030204

GKD Crozier
Protecting cross-border providers of ova and surrogacy services? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 299-303, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030205

Imrana Qadeer
Benefits and threats of international trade in health: A case of surrogacy in India Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 303-305, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030206

Beth Kangas
The burden of pursuing treatment abroad: Three stories of medical travelers from Yemen Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 306-314, doi:10.1177/1468018110379990

Mohd Jamal Alsharif, Ronald Labonté, and Zuxun Lu
Patients beyond borders: A study of medical tourists in four countries Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 315-335, doi:10.1177/1468018110380003

Chee Heng Leng
Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 336-357, doi:10.1177/1468018110379978

Sallie Yea
Trafficking in part(s): The commercial kidney market in a Manila slum, Philippines Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 358-376, doi:10.1177/1468018110379989

Dominique Martin
Medical travel and the sale of human biological materials: Suggestions for ethical policy development Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 377-395, doi:10.1177/1468018110379979

Andrea Whittaker
Challenges of medical travel to global regulation: A case study of reproductive travel in Asia Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 396-415, doi:10.1177/1468018110379981