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Constructions and Experiences of Authenticity in Medical Tourism: The Performances of Places, Spaces, Practices, Objects and Bodies

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posted on 2023-05-17, 05:40 authored by Peta CookPeta Cook
Using the concepts of constructivist authenticity and existential authenticity, I will analyse how claims to, and experiences and understandings of authenticity, are central to medical tourism. This is achieved by examining the interplay of places, spaces, objects, practices and bodies that create this cultural phenomenon. This includes a concern with how medical tourism is constructed around and performed through the perceptions of bodies, and the experiences of being a body. It is these complexities and their interdependencies that provide medical tourism its dynamism. This theorizing of medical tourism goes beyond existing studies that primarily seek to define it or restrict it to typologies, by analysing the practices and experiences that actually constitute this significant social phenomenon.

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Publication title

Tourist Studies: An International Journal

Volume

10

Pagination

135-153

ISSN

1468-7976

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage

Place of publication

India

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in human society

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