Medical Tourism vs Hair Transplants in America
If you surf the web enough, you’ll eventually come across them: seductive videos featuring post-op patients gleefully flashing their thousands of implanted hair grafts, all from an exotic location. Pitched as an affordable opportunity to combine a medical procedure with a vacation, medical tourism has been aggressively marketed for hair transplants. Turkey, in particular, has […]
Hair Loss and Global Culture
Hair is never just hair. It is everywhere a carrier of messages. Without a word, it shouts the bearer’s age, health, status, social role, and cultural or national background. Thus, the complex emotions and social reactions to hair loss are never purely biological, always mediated by cultural context. There is, perhaps, no greater testing ground […]