Medical Tourism: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
• Provides balanced, unbiased treatment of issues surrounding medical tourism, placing medical tourism in a wider social context• Discusses controversies, issues, and solutions for a general audience• Serves as a standalone, introductory resource on medical tourism while also providing a wealth of selected additional resources• A timeline of important historical and contemporary events in history of medical tourism• An extensive bibliography to assist readers toward additional resources for further research"Authoritative and objective and explores a social and economic trend worldwide. . . . Stolley and Watson have produced a reference work that will be used by patrons to begin and then facilitate their own searches for medical information. Recommended for most medium-sized to large public libraries."-Booklist"The title's health care provider profiles and resource listings are extraordinarily worthwhile."-Library Journal