Surgeon and Safari: producing valuable bodies in Johannesburg.
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.
Rutgers University.
Andrew
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Mazzaschi
D001505:Beauty Culture / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003357:Cosmetic Techniques / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D004467:Economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D057193:Medical Tourism / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013019:South Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology