The Globalization of Health Care - Legal and Ethical Issues (Hardcover, New)

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism, medical migration (the physician "brain drain"), telemedicine, and pharmaceutical research and development, and integrates them in a philosophical discussion of issues of justice and equity relating to the globalization of health care.
The time for such an examination is right. Medical tourism and telemedicine are growing multi-billion-dollar industries affecting large numbers of patients. The U.S. heavily depends on foreign-trained doctors to staff its health care system, and nearly forty percent of clinical trials are now run in the developing world, with indications of as much of a 10-fold increase in the past 20 years. NGOs across the world are agitating for increased access to necessary pharmaceuticals in the developing world, claiming that better access to medicine would save millions from early death at a relatively low cost. Coming on the heels of the most expansive reform to U.S. health care in fifty years, this book plots the ways in which this globalization will develop as the reform is implemented.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	I. Glenn Cohen (Assistant Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	240 x 163 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	480
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-991790-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal profession > Legal ethics & professional conduct Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Public health & safety law
LSN:	0-19-991790-6
Barcode:	9780199917907

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