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

by Ann Marie Kimball and Leigh Turner

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313399352
• ISBN13: 9780313399350
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years