Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services

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Release: 2012-07-06
Publisher: Praeger
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0313399352
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health ServiceS≪/i> provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of the benefits and risks when health care becomes a global commodity. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars in law and public policy, medicine and public health, bioethics, anthropology, health geography, and economics.This timely and informative handbook looks at medical tourism from the perspective of some of the major regions that send and receive medical tourists, including the United States, the European Union, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Contributors examine how government agencies, medical tourism companies, international hospital chains, and other organizations promote medical tourism and the globalization of health care. The topics explored include the legal remedies available to medical tourists when procedures go awry; potential consequences when patients cross borders for medical procedures that are Download Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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