The globalization of health care : legal and ethical issues / edited by I. Glenn Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, I. Glenn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Law and legislation.

Medical care.

Health services accessibility--Law and legislation.

Health services accessibility.

Right to health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Right to health.

Health care reform.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I | MEDICAL TOURISM; FOR SERVICES LEGAL IN THE PATIENT'S HOME COUNTRY; 1. Patient Mortality in Medical Tourism: Examining News Media Reports of Deaths following Travel for Cosmetic Surgery or for Bariatric Surgery; 2. Jurisdiction 101 for Medical Tourism Purchases Made in Europe; 3. Canadian Print News Media Coverage of Medical Tourism: Examining Key Themes and Ethical Gaps; 4. Cross-Border Health Care and the Hydraulics of Health Reform; 5. Current Legislation on Cross-Border Health Care in the European Union

6. Medical Tourism and Global JusticeFOR SERVICES ILLEGAL OR UNAPPROVED IN THE PATIENT'S HOME COUNTRY; 7. The Proportionality Problem in Cross-Border Reproductive Care; 8. Open Fertility Borders: Defending Access to Cross-Border Fertility Care in the United States; 9. Tourism: A Matter of Life and Death in the United Kingdom; 10. The Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Patients' Decisions about Unproven Stem Cell Therapies; PART II | MEDICAL WORKER MIGRATION; 11. Global Policies and Local Practice in the Ethical Recruitment of Internationally Trained Health Human Resources

12. Conditioning Medical Scholarships on Long, Future Service: A Defense13. A Global Legal Architecture to Address the Challenges of International Health Worker Migration: A Case Study of the Role of Nonbinding Instruments in Global Health Governance; PART III | THE GLOBALIZATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; 14. Clinical Trials Registration and Results Reporting and the Right to Health; 15. The New Global Framework for Pandemic Influenza Virus- and Vaccine-Sharing

16. Offshoring Experiments, Outsourcing Public Health: Corporate Accountability and State Responsibility for Violating the International Prohibition on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation17. Beyond Patents: Global Challenges to Affordable Medicine; 18. Combating Antibiotic Resistance through the Health Impact Fund; PART IV | TELEMEDICINE; 19. Electronic Medical Tourism and the Medical World Wide Web; 20. Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Telemedicine in the United States: Public and Private Approaches toward Health Care Reform; PART V | HEALTH CARE GLOBALIZATION, EQUITY, AND JUSTICE

21. Global Health Governance as Shared Health Governance22. Global Health Care Is Not Global Health: Populations, Inequities, and Law as a Social Determinant of Health; 23. Global Rights and the Sanctity of Life; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-932412-3

0-19-933287-8

0-19-998801-3

OCLC:

922904515