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64Issues and Challenges in Research on the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Reflections from a Conference (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 8 (1): 3-6. 2011.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 intention of receiving medical care. This care is typically paid for out-of-pocket and is motivated by an interest in cost savings and/or avoiding wait times for care in the patient’s home country. This practice raises numerous ethical concerns, including potentially exacerbating health in…Read more
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67“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 (review)BMC Medical Ethics 14 (1): 37. 2013.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 address this issue by examining ways in which Canadian family doctors’ typical involvement in patients’ informed decision-making is challenged when their patients engage in medical tourism
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37“It Was the Best Decision of My Life”: a thematic content analysis of former medical tourists’ patient testimonialsBMC Medical Ethics 16 (1): 8. 2015.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 interest in accessing unproven interventions. Medical tourism poses new health and safety risks to patients, including dangers associated with travel following surgery, difficulty assessing the quality of care abroad, and complications in continuity of care. Online resources are important to the…Read more
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86Easy Rescues and Organ TransplantationHEC Forum 21 (1): 27-53. 2009.Many people in desperate need of an organ will die on waiting lists for transplantation or face increased morbidity because of their wait. This circumstance is particularly troubling since many viable organs for transplantation go unused when individuals fail to participate in their local organ donation system. In this paper, I consider whether participating in organ transplantation should be considered a form of a rescue of others from the great harms caused by a shortage in transplantable orga…Read more
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35New ethical perspectives on medical tourism in the developing worldDeveloping World Bioethics 12 (1). 2012.
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219Efficiency, Equity, and Price Gouging: A Response to ZwolinskiBusiness Ethics Quarterly 19 (2): 303-306. 2009.In this response, I reiterate my argument that price gouging undercuts the goal of equity in access to essential goods whereas Zwolinski emphasizes the importance of the efficient provision of essential goods above all other goals. I agree that the efficient provision of essential goods is important as I argue for the goal of equitable access to sufficient of the goods essential to living a minimally flourishing human life. However, efficiency is a means to this goal rather than the end itself. …Read more
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28Medical Tourism and Bariatric Surgery: More Moral ChallengesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (12): 28-30. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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44Is Health Worker Migration a Case of Poaching?American Journal of Bioethics 9 (3): 3-7. 2009.Many nations in the developing world invest scarce funding into training health workers. When these workers migrate to richer countries, particularly when this migration occurs before the source community can recoup the costs of training, the destination community realizes a net gain in resources by obtaining the workers' skills without having to pay for their training. This effect of health worker migration has frequently been condemned as 'poaching' or a case of theft. I assess the charge that…Read more
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54Exploitation and demeaning choicesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 12 (4): 345-360. 2013.Scholarship aiming to describe the wrongness of exploitation, especially when it is voluntary and mutually beneficial, has increased greatly in recent years. In this paper, I expand the scope of this discussion by highlighting a set of additional ethical concerns associated with many cases of mutually voluntary and beneficial exploitation. Specifically, I argue that the phenomenon of persons desperately seeking out and gratefully accepting exploitative interactions raises special moral concerns.…Read more
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127Risk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: A thematic content analysis of canadian broker websites (review)BMC Medical Ethics 12 (1): 17-. 2011.Background: 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 are helped in the process of accessing care abroad by medical tourism brokers - agents who specialize in making international medical care arrangements for patients. As a key source of information for these patients, brokers are likely to play an important role in communicating th…Read more
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62Promoting social responsibility amongst health care users: medical tourists' perspectives on an information sheet regarding ethical concerns in medical tourismPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 8 19. 2013.Medical tourists, persons that travel across international borders with the intention to access non-emergency medical care, may not be adequately informed of safety and ethical concerns related to the practice of medical tourism. Researchers indicate that the sources of information frequently used by medical tourists during their decision-making process may be biased and/or lack comprehensive information regarding individual safety and treatment outcomes, as well as potential impacts of the medi…Read more
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194Perceptions of the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Comparing Patient and Academic PerspectivesPublic Health Ethics 5 (1): 38-46. 2012.Medical tourism is a practice, whereby individuals travel across national borders with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists are motivated to travel abroad by a number of factors, including the affordability of care abroad, access to treatments not available at home, and wait times for care at home. In this article, we share the findings of interviews conducted with 32 Canadian medical tourists with the aim of developing a better understanding of medical tourism, the ethical …Read more
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34Hawkins, Jennifer S., and Emanuel, Ezekiel J., eds. Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research (review)Ethics 119 (3). 2009.
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37Crowdfunding for medical care: Ethical issues in an emerging health care funding practiceHastings Center Report 46 (6): 36-42. 2016.Crowdfunding websites allow users to post a public appeal for funding for a range of activities, including adoption, travel, research, participation in sports, and many others. One common form of crowdfunding is for expenses related to medical care. Medical crowdfunding appeals serve as a means of addressing gaps in medical and employment insurance, both in countries without universal health insurance, like the United States, and countries with universal coverage limited to essential medical nee…Read more
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33Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Relative Versus Absolute Standards for Everyday Risk in Adolescent HIV Prevention Trials: Expanding the Debate”American Journal of Bioethics 11 (6). 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 6, Page W1-W3, June 2011
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