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Open Access“Ensure that you are well aware of the risks you are taking…”: actions and activities medical tourists’ informal caregivers can undertake to protect their health and safety
When seeking care at international hospitals and clinics, medical tourists are often accompanied by family members, friends, or other caregivers. Such caregiver-companions assume a variety of roles and respons...
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Open AccessKnowledge brokers, companions, and navigators: a qualitative examination of informal caregivers’ roles in medical tourism
Many studies examining the phenomena of medical tourism have identified health equity issues associated with this global health services practice. However, there is a notable lack of attention in this existing...
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Open Access“You’re dealing with an emotionally charged individual…”: an industry perspective on the challenges posed by medical tourists’ informal caregiver-companions
Patients engage in medical tourism when they privately obtain a medical care abroad. Previous research shows that many medical tourists travel abroad with friends and family members who provide support and ass...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados: a prospective, qualitative study of stakeholder perceptions
Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel internationally with the intention of receiving medical services. A range of low, middle, and high income countries are encouraging investment ...
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Caring for Non-residents in Barbados: Examining the Implications of Inbound Transnational Medical Care for Public and Private Health Care
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Canadian Medical Travel Companies and the Globalisation of Health Care
The key findings of this chapter are as follows:
Though residents of Canada have access to medically necessary, publicly funded treatment available through provincial health car...
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Open AccessBeyond "medical tourism": Canadian companies marketing medical travel
Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as f...
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Open AccessCanadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace: Content analysis of websites used to market transnational medical travel
Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global pheno...
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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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Anthropological and Sociological Critiques of Bioethics
Anthropologists and sociologists offer numerous critiques of bioethics. Social scientists criticize bioethicists for their arm-chair philosophizing and socially ungrounded pontificating, offering philosophical...
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‘First World Health Care at Third World Prices’: Globalization, Bioethics and Medical Tourism
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries market themselves as major destinations for ‘medical tourism’. Health-related travel, once promoted by individual medic...
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Public Goods, Private Goods
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Bioethic$ Inc.
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Republicanism
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Biotechnology as religion
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Life Extension Research: Health, Illness, and Death
Scientists, bioethicists, and policy makers are currently engaged in a contentious debate about the scientific prospects and morality of efforts to increase human longevity. Some demographers and geneticists s...
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Science, politics and the President's Council on Bioethics
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Bioethics in pluralistic societies
Contemporary liberal democracies contain multiple cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions. Within these societies, different interpretive communities provide divergent models for understanding health...
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Is repugnance wise? Visceral responses to biotechnology
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Graduate education and employment opportunities in bioethics
As graduate programs in bioethics continue to grow and diversify, picking the right one requires careful planning for one's postgraduate career.
