Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 298-304

  Holliday, Ruth ^a   Bell, David ^a   Cheung, Olive ^b   Jones, Meredith ^c   Probyn, Elspeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Cosmetic surgery tourism; Flow; Network

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; MOBILITY; TOURISM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COSMETIC SURGERY TOURISM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TOURISM; SOUTH KOREA; THAILAND; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TRENDS;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MEDICAL TOURISM; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 84920288626     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.047     Document Type: Article

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