Surgeon and Safari: producing valuable bodies in Johannesburg.

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI:10.1086/655941

Andrew Mazzaschi

引用次数: 25

Abstract

This essay explores how concepts of value and cheapness circulate around the bodies of clients of the Johannesburg-based cosmetic surgery tourism company Surgeon and Safari. I show how the production of a luxurious experience and the mitigation of risk take place within a transnational network enabled by the presence of medical tourism in multiple locales. By placing Surgeon and Safari's activities within the context of the neoliberalization of health care in South Africa, I explore how the division between private versus public health spaces functions as both a technique of valuing clients' bodies and as a process of racialization.

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外科医生和狩猎:在约翰内斯堡生产有价值的尸体。

这篇文章探讨了价值和廉价的概念是如何在约翰内斯堡整容旅游公司外科医生和狩猎的客户身上流传的。我展示了在多个地区开展医疗旅游的跨国网络中如何产生奢华体验并减轻风险。通过将Surgeon和Safari的活动置于南非医疗保健新自由主义化的背景下，我探索了私人与公共卫生空间之间的区分如何作为一种重视客户身体的技术和种族化的过程。

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Signs WOMENS STUDIES-

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3.30

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期刊介绍： Recognized as the leading international journal in women"s studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. Signs publishes pathbreaking articles of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality either as central focuses or as constitutive analytics; symposia engaging comparative, interdisciplinary perspectives from around the globe to analyze concepts and topics of import to feminist scholarship; retrospectives that track the growth and development of feminist scholarship, note transformations in key concepts and methodologies, and construct genealogies of feminist inquiry; and new directions essays, which provide an overview of the main themes, controversies.