Transnationalism: Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 481-503

  McDonald, Emily ^a  

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Author keywords

Academics, shifting terrain of medical travel "medical tourism"; Diverse studies of "moving bodies" foregrounding of bodies physically; Emergence of "medical tourism" biomedicine and movement; Meeting the doctor; Moving away from notions of transcendent subject; Non sequential ordering of activities and time and distance; Transnational surgery as momentum; Transnationalism bodies in motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885534664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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