[csaa-forum] Re: healthcare tourism

[Aren Z. Aizura]

Hi Meredith,

I'm doing PhD research on Australians who journey to Thailand for gender 
reassignment surgery. My PhD is about the intersection between travel and 
transsexuality, but Thailand travel is one of my case studies. Travel for 
reassignment surgeries is very widely practiced, both internally within 
Australia and overseas. I'd be very interested to talk to anyone else doing 
research on the the enlarging 'medical tourism' market. Confusingly, the 
term 'medical tourism' also seems to double as a definition for voluntary 
medical aid work, ie Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Re hip replacements -- check out 
http://iceaps.anu.edu.au/ac/asian-currents-05-08.htm

What's your interest?


Aren Aizura
University of Melbourne




> From: "Meredith Jones" <meredith.jones at uws.edu.au>
> Subject: [csaa-forum] healthcare tourism
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of work that has been done on healthcare tourism - any 
> discipline - specifically to do with Australia?  I am looking for research 
> about Australians who travel overseas or interstate for medical treatment, 
> and/or about people who travel to Australia for medical treatment.  The 
> definition of 'medical treatment' can be as broad as you wish, from hip 
> replacements to penis enlargements.
>
> Meredith Jones
> Centre for Cultural Research www.uws.edu.au/ccr
> University of Western Sydney
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