Patients with Passports
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-997509-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Preface ; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Medical Tourism Industry ; Part I: Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Patient's Home Country ; Chapter 2: Quality and Information ; Chapter 3: Legal Liability ; Chapter 4: Medical Tourism Through Private Health Insurance ; Chapter 5: Medical Tourism Through Public Health Insurance: The EU Model and Beyond ; Chapter 6: Medical Tourism's Effects on the Destination Country: An Empirical and Ethical Examination. ; Part II: Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in the Patient's Home Country ; Chapter 7: Transplant Tourism ; Chapter 8: Medical Tourism and Ending Life: Travel for Assisted Suicide and Abortion ; Chapter 9: Medical Tourism and the Creation of Life: A Study of Fertility Tourism ; Chapter 10: Medical Tourism for Experimental Therapies: An In-Depth Exploration of Stem Cell Therapy Tourism. ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 239 x 157 mm |
| Gewicht | 958 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-997509-4 / 0199975094 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-997509-9 / 9780199975099 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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