TY - BOOK ID - 49489203 TI - Patients with passports : medical tourism, law and ethics PY - 2014 SN - 0190218193 0190205520 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medical tourism KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Law, General & Comparative KW - Law and legislation KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Health tourism KW - Tourism KW - Medical laws and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49489203 AB - The world may be getting smaller every day, but until very recently health care remained local. 'Patients with Passports' is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of one part of the globalization of health care: medical tourism. The author examines the two sides of the industry: medical tourism for services legal in the patient's home country where patients travel to places such as India, Thailand and Mexico to reduce costs, avoid queues, or qualify for insurance incentives, and medical tourism for services illegal in the home country. ER -