Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services
• Provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of the growing global phenomenon of traveling to foreign countries for medical treatment• Brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to explore the legal, ethical, public policy, and social aspects of the medical tourism industry• Examines the role of government institutions, health care providers, medical tourism facilitators, and insurance companies in promoting medical tourism• Helps patients and citizens, bioethicists, legal scholars, physicians and other health care professionals, social scientists, and policy-makers better understand the phenomenon of medical tourism