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The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism
Celebrity Treatment
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2015
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8687-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8688-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
239
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Contents No access
Preface and Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter One: Steve McQueen: Treating Mesothelioma in Mexico No access
Chapter Two: Rock Hudson: AIDS Comes Out of the Closet No access
Chapter Three: Farrah Fawcett: Killing “Terrorists” in the Black Forest No access
Chapter Four: Steve Jobs: Creative Quests for a Cure No access
Chapter Five: Karen Black: “Help Karen Beat Cancer” No access
Chapter Six: Christine Jorgensen: “She Went Abroad and Came Back a Broad” No access
Chapter Seven: Peyton Manning: Miracle Cures and a Little Bit of Voodoo No access
Chapter Eight: Pope John Paul II, Nick Nolte, Kobe Bryant, and Alex Rodriguez: A Treatment from God No access
Chapter Nine: Suzanne Somers: Growing a Breast Like the Ones in Japan No access
Chapter Ten: Angelina Jolie: A Beautiful Body Travels the World No access
Chapter Eleven: 60 Minutes: Making Thailand’s Bumrungrad International Hospital Famous No access
Chapter Twelve: Sicko (2007): Michael Moore’s Transatlantic Trek for Quality Health Care No access
Chapter Thirteen: Dallas Buyers Club (2013): “The Sexiest Man Alive” Is a Medical Tourist No access
