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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'The Globalization of Health Care' offers a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Online resource; title from home page (viewed March 7, 2013).

Patient mortality in medical tourism : examining news media reports of deaths following travel for cosmetic surgery and bariatric surgery / Leigh Turner -- Jurisdiction 101 for medical tourism purchases made in Europe / Thomas R. McLean -- Canadian print news media coverage of medical tourism : examining key themes and ethical gaps / Valorie A. Crooks [and others] -- Cross-border health care and the hydraulics of health reform / Nathan Cortez -- Current legislation on cross-border healthcare in the European Union / Hilko J. Meyer -- Medical tourism and global justice / I. Glenn Cohen -- The proportionality problem in cross-border reproductive care / Richard F. Storrow -- Open fertility borders : defending access to cross border fertility care in the United States / Kimberly M. Mutcherson -- Tourism : a matter of life and death in the United Kingdom / Hazel Biggs and Caroline Jones -- The roles and responsibilities of physicians in patients' decisions about unproven stem cell therapies / Aaron D. Levine and Leslie E. Wolf -- Global policies and local practice in the ethical recruitment of internationally trained health human resources / Vivien Runnels, Corinne Packer, and Ronald Labonté -- Conditioning medical scholarships on long, future service : a defense / Nir Eyal and Till Bärnighausen -- A global legal architecture to address the challenges of international health worker migration : a case study of the role of non-binding instruments in global health governance / Allyn L. Taylor and Ibadat S. Dhillon.

Clinical trials registration and results reporting and the right to health / Trudo Lemmons and Candice Telfer -- The new global framework for pandemic influenza virus and vaccine sharing / Robert Gatter -- Offshoring experiments, Outsourcing public health : corporate accountability and state responsibility for violating the international prohibition on nonconsensual human experimentation / Bethany Spielman -- Beyond patents : global challenges to affordable medicine / Cynthia M. Ho -- Combating antibiotic resistance through the health impact fund / Kevin Outterson, Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis -- Electronic medical tourism and the medical world wide web / Gil Siegal -- Legal and regulatory barriers to telemedicine in the United States : public and private approaches toward health care reform / Deth Sao, Amar Gupta, and David A. Gantz -- Global health governance as shared health governance / Jennifer Prah Ruger -- Global health care is not global health : populations, inequities, and law as a social determinant of health / Daniel S. Goldberg -- Global rights and the sanctity of life / Pavlos Eleftheriadis.

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