Outpatients
Subtitle: the astonishing new world of medical tourism
By: Sasha Issenberg
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780990976387
Subjects: Medical care; Medical policy; Medical tourism
Description: "Today more people travel to Hungary for dental care than to any other country in Europe. The fascinating story of how Hungary became Europe's dental chair is a case study in medical tourism, which has become a growing multi-billion-dollar industry -- exploding in places as varied as India, Brazil, Korea, and Costa Rica -- as countries rewrite laws to compete for patients. Doctors and dentists have to run a business, but does globalization destroy the dream of high-quality universal health care? Sasha Issenberg, the acclaimed author of The Sushi Economy and The Victory Lab, goes on the trail of dental tourism in Eastern Europe in search of answers."--provided by Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-126).
Table of contents: title: Chapter one. Orbán's dentist; title: Chapter two. Bismarck and Beveridge; title: Chapter three. Torn curtain; title: Chapter four. Brain drain; title: Chapter five. Flying bodies; title: Chapter six. Europa; title: Chapter seven. The Bulgarian method; title: Chapter eight. The Eastern Front.