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Patients with Passports - Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Patients with Passports - Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip
replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury
results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical
malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit
its citizens from helping a relative travel to Switzerland for
assisted suicide? What about travel for abortion? In Patients with
Passports, I. Glenn Cohen tackles these important questions, and
provides the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of
medical tourism. Medical tourism is a growing multi-billion dollar
industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year
to get health care. Some seek legitimate services like hip
replacements and travel to avoid queues, save money, or because
their insurer has given them an incentive to do so. Others seek to
circumvent prohibitions on accessing services at home and go abroad
to receive abortions, assisted suicide, commercial surrogacy, or
experimental stem cell treatments. In this book, author I. Glenn
Cohen focuses on patients traveling for cardiac bypass and other
legal services to places like India, Thailand, and Mexico, and
analyzes issues of quality of care, disease transmission,
liability, private and public health insurance, and the effects of
this trade on foreign health care systems. He goes on to examine
medical tourism for services illegal in the patient's home country,
such as organ purchase, abortion, assisted suicide, fertility
services, and experimental stem cell treatments. Here, Cohen
examines issues such as extraterritorial criminalization,
exploitation, immigration, and the protection of children. Through
compelling narratives, expert data, and industry explanations
Patients with Passports enables the reader to connect with the most
prevalent legal and ethical issues facing medical tourism today.
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