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Research Object - General To Particular Flow-chart

__*Biomedicine__ -> Understanding Biomedicine as a dominant global system/institution. -> De-naturalizing/Unpacking the making of “knowledge” and “practices” of health and medicine. --> The formation of new Medical practices & Common Sense about Health ---> Evolutions of Medical Tourism (MT) as a new practice responsive to social forces and mixing institutions. > **Differences between MT in sites / formation of an industry** in response to political Economy and culture.

__*Biomedicine__ -> The relationship of people and Biomedicine (the way it creates/allows our understanding of ourselves, is used, defines, labels) -> Issues of definition of healthy/unhealthy (Normal/Abnormal, Roles and subject positions, Ideas about population/biopolitics, aggregate statistics, universalization of medical knowledge, “biological citizenship”, individuality-responsibility, risk) -> “Being” Healthy (Specific roles of healthy and unhealthy people, and their definition by the performance of health) --->The various roles and ways of being that biomedicine is involved in the specific assemblage of MT. > **Making of a medical tourist/ international health clinic** (the way scientific knowledges, popular epistemologies, large scale economic formations, hegemonies, and social control come together in this site)