The globalization of health care
Subtitle: legal and ethical issues
By: edited by Glenn I. Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780199917907
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Law and legislation; Health care reform; Medical care; Medical ethics; Health services accessibility; Right to health
Description: 'The Globalization of Health Care' offers a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Patient mortality in medical tourism : examining news media reports of deaths following travel for cosmetic surgery and bariatric surgery; title: Jurisdiction 101 for medical tourism purchases made in Europe; title: Canadian print news media coverage of medical tourism : examining key themes and ethical gaps; title: Cross-border health care and the hydraulics of health reform; title: Current legislation on cross-border healthcare in the European Union; title: Medical tourism and global justice; title: The proportionality problem in cross-border reproductive care; title: Open fertility borders : defending access to cross border fertility care in the United States; title: Toursim : a matter of life and death in the United kingdom; title: The roles and responsibilites of physicians in patients' decisions about unproven stem cell therapies; title: Global policies and local practice in the ethical recruitment of internationally trained health human resources; title: Conditioning medical scholarships on long, future service : a defense; title: A global legal architecture to address the challenges of international health worker migration : a case study of the role of non-binding instruments in global health governance; title: Clinical trials registration and results reporting and the right to health; title: The new global framework for pandemic influenza virus and vaccine sharing; title: Offshoring experiments, Outsourcing public health : corporate accountability and state responsibility for violating the international prohibition on nonconsensual human experimentation; title: Beyond patents : global challenges to affordable medicine; title: Combating antibiotic resistance through the health impact fund; title: Electronic medical tourism and the medical world wide web; title: legal and regulatory barriers to telemedicine in the United States : public and private approaches toward health care reform; title: Global health governance as shared health governance; title: Global health care is not global health : populations, inequities, and law as a social determinant of health; title: Global rights and the sanctity of life.