The Globalization of Health Care Legal and Ethical Issues

Author: I. Glenn Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780199917907
Published In: May 2013
Format: Hardback , 480 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Gives an integrated approach to interdisciplinary problems that spans fields including law and medicine.
Medical tourism and telemedicine are growing rapidly in the last decade and this book helps readers to understand the implications of this development.
Aids readers in understanding the impact of Obamacare on the globalization of health care.
The book is well-integrated and contributions reference one another so that it fits together as a seamless whole.

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 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.

Readership: Academics: undergraduate majors focusing on globalization and its consequences, public health and medical schools, as well as graduate school classes in health economics, development economics, and geography. Industry: telemedicine, medical tourism, medical migration, and pharmaceutical development. Well-educated lay reader interested in two general phenomenon: globalization and health care delivery

Introduction
Glenn Cohen Patient Mortality In Medical Tourism: Examining News Media Reports Of Deaths Following Travel For Cosmetic Surgery And Bariatric Surgery
Part I: Medical Tourism
For Services Legal in the Patient's Home Country
Chapter One
Leigh Turner Patient Mortality In Medical Tourism: Examining News Media Reports Of Deaths Following Travel For Cosmetic Surgery And Bariatric Surgery
Chapter Two
Thomas R. McLean Jurisdiction 101 For Medical Tourism Purchases Made In Europe
Chapter Three
Valorie A. Crooks Canadian Print News Media Coverage Of Medical Tourism: Examining
Jeremy Snyder Key Themes And Ethical Gaps
Leigh Turner
Krystyna Adams
Rory Johnston
Victoria Casey
Chapter Four
Nathan Cortez Cross-Border Health Care And The Hydraulics Of Health Reform
Chapter Five
Hilko J. Meyer Current Legislation On Cross-Border Healthcare In The European Union
Chapter Six
I. Glenn Cohen Medical Tourism And Global Justice
For Services Illegal or Unapproved in the Patient's Home Country
Chapter Seven
Richard F. Storrow The Proportionality Problem In Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Chapter Eight
Kimberly M. Mutcherson Open Fertility Borders: Defending Access To Cross Border Fertility Care In The United States
Chapter Nine
Hazel Biggs Tourism: A Matter Of Life And Death In The United Kingdom
Caroline Jones
Chapter Ten
Aaron D. Levine The Roles And Responsibilities Of Physicians In Patients' Decisions About
Leslie E. Wolf Unproven Stem Cell Therapies
Chapter Eleven
Vivien Runnels Global Policies And Local Practice In The Ethical Recruitment Of
Corinne Packer Internationally Trained Health Human Resources
Ronald Labonté
Part II: Medical Worker Migration
Chapter Twelve
Nir Eyal Conditioning Medical Scholarships On Long, Future Service: A Defense
Till Bärnighausen
Chapter Thirteen
Allyn L. Taylor A Global Legal Architecture To Address The Challenges Of International
Ibadat S. Dhillon Health Worker Migration: A Case Study Of The Role Of Non-Binding Instruments In Global Health Governance
Part III: The Globalization of Research and Development
Chapter Fourteen
Trudo Lemmons Clinical Trials Registration And Results Reporting And The Right To
Candice Telfer Health
Chapter Fifteen
Robert Gatter The New Global Framework for Pandemic Influenza Virus and Vaccine Sharing
Chapter Sixteen
Bethany Spielman Offshoring Experiments, Outsourcing Public Health: Corporate Accountability And State Responsibility For Violating The International Prohibition On Nonconsensual Human Experimentation
Chapter Seventeen
Cynthia M. Ho Beyond Patents: Global Challenges to Affordable Medicine
Chapter Eighteen
Kevin Outterson Combating Antibiotic Resistance Through The Health Impact Fund
Thomas Pogge
Aidan Hollis
Part IV: Telemedicine
Chapter Nineteen
Gil Siegal Electronic Medical Tourism And The Medical World Wide Web
Chapter Twenty
Deth Sao Legal And Regulatory Barriers To Telemedicine In The United
Amar Gupta States: Public And Private Approaches Toward Health Care
David A. Gantz Reform
Part V: Health Care Globalization, Equity, and Justice
Chapter Twenty-One
Jennifer Prah Ruger Global Health Governance as Shared Health Governance
Chapter Twenty-Two
Daniel S. Goldberg Global Health Care Is Not Global Health: Populations, Inequities, And Law As A Social Determinant Of Health
Chapter Twenty-Three
Pavlos Eleftheriadis Global Rights and the Sanctity of Life

I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, US

I. Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Contributors:
I. Glenn Cohen

Leigh Turner
Thomas R. McLean
Valorie A. Crooks
Jeremy Snyder
Leigh Turner
Krystyna Adams
Rory Johnston
Victoria Casey
Nathan Cortez
Hilko J. Meyer
Richard F. Storrow
Kimberly M. Mutcherson
Hazel Biggs
Caroline Jones
Aaron D. Levine
Leslie E. Wolf
Chapter Eleven
Vivien Runnels
Corinne Packer
Ronald Labonté
Nir Eyal
Till Bärnighausen
Allyn L. Taylor
Ibadat S. Dhillon
Trudo Lemmons
Candice Telfer
Robert Gatter
Bethany Spielman
Cynthia M. Ho
Kevin Outterson
Thomas Pogge
Aidan Hollis
Gil Siegal
Deth Sao
Amar Gupta
David A. Gantz
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Chapter Twenty-Two
Daniel S. Goldberg
Pavlos Eleftheriadis