Patients with passports
Subtitle: medical tourism, law and ethics
By: I. Glenn Cohen
Series: Oxford scholarship online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780190205522
Subjects: Medical tourism; Law and legislation; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2014).