Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism
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- ISBN 9780313399350
- Weight: 851g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.
Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of the benefits and risks when health care becomes a global commodity. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars in law and public policy, medicine and public health, bioethics, anthropology, health geography, and economics.
This timely and informative handbook looks at medical tourism from the perspective of some of the major regions that send and receive medical tourists, including the United States, the European Union, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Contributors examine how government agencies, medical tourism companies, international hospital chains, and other organizations promote medical tourism and the globalization of health care. The topics explored include the legal remedies available to medical tourists when procedures go awry; potential consequences when patients cross borders for medical procedures that are illegal in their home countries; the relationship of medical tourism to international spread of infectious disease; and the lack of adequate transnational policies and regulations governing the global market for health services.
Jill Hodges, MPH, MSL, is a writer and editor who explores how globalization affects individuals' lives.
Leigh Turner, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, and College of Pharmacy.
Ann Marie Kimball, MD, MPH, is senior program officer of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Infectious Disease, and Global Health at the Gates Foundation.
