Wednesday 2 August 2017

New Special Issue on International Medical Travel in Asia Pacific Viewpoint



Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volume 58, Issue 2 Pages 127 - 254, August 2017

Special Issue: International Medical Travel

Editorial

International medical travel and the politics of transnational mobility in Asia (pages 129–135)
Heng Leng Chee, Andrea Whittaker and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Version of Record online: 1 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/apv.12164

Special Articles

Regional circuits of international medical travel: Prescriptions of trust, cultural affinity and history(pages 136–147)
Andrea Whittaker, Heng Leng Chee and Heong Hong Por
Archipelagic genes: Medical travel as a creative response to limitations and remoteness in the Maldives (pages 148–161)
Eva-Maria Knoll
Regional reproductive quests: Cross-border reproductive travel among infertile Indonesian couples(pages 162–174)
Linda Bennett and Mulyoto Pangestu
Cross-border patient movement from the Lao PDR and the interplay between social networks and economic and cultural capital: A qualitative study (pages 175–189)
Jo Durham
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism (pages 190–202)
Ruth Holliday, Olive Cheung, Ji Hyun Cho and David Bell
Crossing boundaries of state and religious power: Reproductive mobilities in Singapore (pages 203–215)
Danicar Mariano, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Yi'En Cheng
Navigating the ‘grey areas’: Australian medical travellers in China's stem cell bionetwork (pages 216–227)
Jane Brophy
Spaces of connectivity: The formation of medical travel destinations in Delhi National Capital Region (India) (pages 228–241)
Heidi Kaspar and Sunita Reddy
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage (pages 242–254)
Heng Leng Chee, Andrea Whittaker and Heong Hong Por