Dr. Sebastian Muth

Title

Marketing and commodification in medical tourism to Switzerland

Duration

01.2014 - 12.2015

In line with the growth of linguistically mediated knowledge in the neoliberal new economy, the international health care sector requires some of its workforce to be multilingual, reflecting an increasing multilingualization as a means of...

Title

A Web of Care

Duration

01.2015 - 09.2019

Using the healthcare industry as a site of study, this project aims to uncover the conditions in which particular configurations of language proficiency and speakers become desired commodities, as the demands of globally mobile patients are...