The Globalization of Health Care : Legal and Ethical Issues

The Globalization of Health Care i s 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. Patient mortality in medical tourism : examining news media reports of deaths following travel for cosmetic surgery and bariatric surgery Jurisdiction 101 for medical tourism purchases made in Europe Canadian print news media coverage of medical tourism : examining key themes and ethical gaps Cross-border health care and the hydraulics of health reform Current legislation on cross-border healthcare in the European Union Medical tourism and global justice The proportionality problem in cross-border reproductive care Open fertility borders : defending access to cross border fertility care in the United States Toursim : a matter of life and death in the United kingdom The roles and responsibilites of physicians in patients' decisions about unproven stem cell therapies Global policies and local practice in the ethical recruitment of internationally trained health human resources Conditioning medical scholarships on long, future service : a defense 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 Clinical trials registration and results reporting and the right to health The new global framework for pandemic influenza virus and vaccine sharing Offshoring experiments, Outsourcing public health : corporate accountability and state responsibility for violating the international prohibition on nonconsensual human experimentation Beyond patents : global challenges to affordable medicine Combating antibiotic resistance through the health impact fund Electronic medical tourism and the medical world wide web legal and regulatory barriers to telemedicine in the United States : public and private approaches toward health care reform Global health governance as shared health governance Global health care is not global health : populations, inequities, and law as a social determinant of health Global rights and the sanctity of life. 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 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. -- from back cover '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.