Gareth-+supplement+to+memo+2


 * __Medical Tourism Specific interview Site List__**
 * 1) Cheerleaders/ Popularizes (i.e. Jeff Schult) and public persona patients
 * 2) Former/prospective Patient interviews
 * 3) Hospital Staff at internationalizing hospitals (I.e. Chenai… Bumrungrad… Manilla)- Combine with some participant observation on site
 * 4) Government officials in destination countries ( Bureau of tourism/Dept public health/foreign affairs)
 * 5) Local travel agencies in immigrant communities in NY- With some observation on site
 * 6) Formal Med Tourism Travel Agencies - Combine with discursive analysis of materials/websites produced
 * 7) Formal Med Tourism infrastructure/policy in US- State Dept and INS as well as
 * 8) American Medical Association (AMA) archives and reps./ American Association of Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgeons (may have that name wrong) archives and rep/
 * 9) Orthopedic Surgeons NY/India re: Joint resurfacing/replacement
 * 10) US Case example Blue Ridge paper- interview insurance company if possible, union reps and workers more likely
 * 11) US Case example Cal State health insurance- insurance companies, state reps, state union reps.

__**Theoretical Interest in Medical Tourism**__


 * 1) How does the increasing travel for healthcare put into conflinct the reality and conceptualization of the two poles of - universal/comoditized/standardized notion of biology with localized biology (i.e. Locke) and different practices of medicine (Mol et al Eds.).
 * 2) How does the linking of different healthcare regimes with different political cultures (Jasanoff) affect the formation of medical knowledge, and legitimacy of different practices accross borders. For example the popularization of joint resurfacing in India causing a reevaluation of the practice in the US; the travel to China for Stem Cell implant as accelerator for approval of human trials in US; acceptance of access to IVF/surrogacy etc in other countries is tantamount to legalizitaion for the wealthy, while maintaining illegality for poor.
 * 3) This phenomena is expanding and offers a site where intervention could conceivable have impact on quality of medical practice.
 * 4) Expansion of price transparency and competition in healthcare as model for neoliberal reform in US have fueled formation of medical tourism, and seem to me to be a brake on the possibility of national health reform in other modes.