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Jeremy Snyder
Ethics
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Exploitation without Fairness
Contemporary accounts of the concept of exploitation can be grouped into camps that tie the wrongness of taking advantage of another person to: (1) the unfair division of benefits resulting from an interaction...
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Open AccessEthics of task shifting in the health workforce: exploring the role of community health workers in HIV service delivery in low- and middle-income countries
Task shifting is increasingly used to address human resource shortages impacting HIV service delivery in low- and middle-income countries. By shifting basic tasks from higher- to lower-trained cadres, such as ...
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How Medical Tourism Enables Preferential Access to Care: Four Patterns from the Canadian Context
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling across international borders with the intention of accessing medical care, paid for out-of-pocket. This practice has implications for preferential access to medical...
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Open AccessCanadian research ethics board members’ attitudes toward benefits from clinical trials
While ethicists have for many years called for human subject trial participants and, in some cases, local community members to benefit from participation in pharmaceutical and other intervention-based therapie...
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Open Access“It Was the Best Decision of My Life”: a thematic content analysis of former medical tourists’ patient testimonials
Medical tourism is international travel with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists travel for many reasons, including cost savings, limited domestic access to specific treatments, and inter...
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Migration of Health Personnel and Brain Drain
Within global bioethics, global inequities in terms of life expectancy, morbidity, and the distribution of health resources have been identified as areas of serious ethical concern. These inequities are caused...
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Open Access“Do your homework…and then hope for the best”: the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians’ support of patients’ informed decision-making
Medical tourism—the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care—may limit patients’ regular physicians’ abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We a...
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Open AccessRisk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: A thematic content analysis of canadian broker websites
Medical tourism, thought of as patients seeking non-emergency medical care outside of their home countries, is a growing industry worldwide. Canadians are amongst those engaging in medical tourism, and many ar...
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Issues and Challenges in Research on the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Reflections from a Conference
The authors co-organized (Snyder and Crooks) and gave a keynote presentation at (Turner) a conference on ethical issues in medical tourism. Medical tourism involves travel across international borders with the...
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Conflicting Obligations in the International Migration of Health Workers
Many moral wrongs allegedly take place due to the migration of skilled health workers from the develo** to the developed world. In many cases, the immorality of this kind of migration is taken to be self-evi...
