| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
An introduction to the medical tourism industry -- Quality and information -- Legal liability -- Medical tourism through private health insurance -- Medical tourism through public health insurance : the eu model and beyond -- Medical tourism's effects on the destination country : an empirical and ethical examination -- Transplant tourism -- Medical tourism and ending life : travel for assisted suicide and abortion -- Medical tourism and the creation of life : a study of fertility tourism -- Medical tourism for experimental therapies : an in-depth exploration of stem cell therapy tourism |
| Summary |
The world may be getting smaller every day, but until very recently health care remained local. 'Patients with Passports' is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of one part of the globalization of health care: medical tourism. The author examines the two sides of the industry: medical tourism for services legal in the patient's home country where patients travel to places such as India, Thailand and Mexico to reduce costs, avoid queues, or qualify for insurance incentives, and medical tourism for services illegal in the home country |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical tourism -- Law and legislation.
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Medical tourism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Medical tourism -- Law and legislation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190205522 |
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0190205520 |
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