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Patients with passports : medical tourism, law and ethics / I. Glenn Cohen.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190205522 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Medical tourism -- Law and legislation | Medical tourism -- Moral and ethical aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199975099DDC classification: 362.1 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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