Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism (eBook)

Celebrity Treatment

Kathy Merlock Jackson, Lisa Lyon Payne, Kathy Shepherd Stolley (Autoren)

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2015
232 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8688-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Celebrity culture, health care, and travel attract attention in America's media-saturated society. These worlds curiously intersect in the study of medical tourism. Although the US touts some of the finest and best-known medical facilities in the world, many jet-setting A-list celebrities, who can well afford the finest of health care, seek treatment far away from home, popularizing international sites, physicians, and procedures. These travelers, whose every move is chronicled by the media, both reflect and influence health care concerns in America. An analysis of these high-profile cases of celebrities with both life-threatening and non life-threatening conditions sheds light on the link between medical tourism and celebrity, showing how health care and entertainment intersect, and the American public responds. The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment argues that celebrity cases and media content drive awareness of medical tourism among Americans at a time when the medical system is under intense scrutiny. By popularizing international sites for treatment, procedures not available in the US, and different approaches to patient care, media narratives present options for health care, triggering dialogue on one of America's most important human welfare issues.

Autor

Kathy Merlock Jackson is professor of communication at Virginia Wesleyan College. Lisa Lyon Payne is associate professor and coordinator of communication at Virginia Wesleyan College. Kathy Shepherd Stolley is professor of sociology at Virginia Wesleyan College.

Inhalt

Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Going Abroad: Leaving on a Jet Plane for Hope, Health, and HolidayPart I: Seeking Treatment for Life-Threatening Illnesses: Cancer and AIDS Case StudiesChapter 1: Steve McQueen: Treating Mesothelioma in MexicoChapter 2: Rock Hudson: AIDS Comes Out of the ClosetChapter 3: Farrah Fawcett: Killing “Terrorists” in the Black Forest Chapter 4: Steve Jobs: Creative Quests for a Cure Chapter 5: Karen Black: “Help Karen Beat Cancer”Part II: Seeking Treatment for Non-Life-Threatening Conditions: Sex Reassignment, Arthritis, Cosmetic Surgery, and Childbirth Case Studies Chapter 6: Christine Jorgensen: “She Went Abroad and Came Back a Broad”Chapter 7: Peyton Manning: Miracle Cures and a Little Bit of VoodooChapter 8: Pope John Paul II, Nick Nolte, Kobe Bryant, and Alex Rodriguez: A Treatment from GodChapter 9: Suzanne Somers: Growing a Breast Like the Ones in JapanChapter 10: Angelina Jolie: A Beautiful Body Travels the WorldPart III: Spreading the Word: Short Takes on Medical Tourism in Popular Media and its Celebrity Connections Chapter 11: 60 Minutes: Making Thailand’s Bumrungrad International Hospital FamousChapter 12: Sicko (2007): Michael Moore’s Transatlantic Trek for Quality Health Care Chapter 13: Dallas Buyers Club (2013): The “Sexiest Man Alive” Is a Medical TouristConclusion: Coming Home: Social and Political Ramifications of Celebrity Medical TourismBibliographyAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8688-4 / 0739186884
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8688-6 / 9780739186886