Perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of the medical tourism industry on the market. Unlike many other medical tourism resources, Cohen takes an unbiased, holistic approach to discuss:
-What is driving the growth of medical tourism
-The dynamics of patient flows from region to region
-Real life patient experiences
-The role of public and private insurance in sponsoring medical tourism
-Ethical, legal and moral obligations of facilitators and providers in assisting or delivering care to medical tourists
-How to regulate services illegal in certain countries (e.g., assisted suicide, stem cell treatment)
While the bulk of the book focuses on the latter two issues, there is plenty of information and analysis in here that makes you think from a business perspective as well.
A recommended read to anyone who currently works in or plans to enter the industry.
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Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
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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.
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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A definitive examination of exceptionally thorny issues on the horizon, or already here. ― Harvard Magazine --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (or medical ethics), and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. Prior to becoming a professor, he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court. He was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2012-2013) and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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Perhaps the Most Comprehensive Analysis of the Medical Tourism Industry
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M. Dai Zovi
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This book is great! Very thoroughly researched
Reviewed in the United States on 30 August 2015Verified Purchase
This book is great! Very thoroughly researched, insightful, informative. It gives you both a discussion of the issues surrounding the vast majority of medical tourism cases, as well as the ethical and legal implications of unusual edge cases that you might not have considered. Highly recommended for someone trying to fully understand this new global phenomena.