BioethxChat
Transcript 25 - May 19, 2014
Topic: Globalization & Healthcare Ethics
Guest Host: I. Glenn Cohen (@CohenProf),
Director, Harvard's Petrie Flom Center
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T1 Why might practitioners and/or patients choose to partake in #MedicalTourism? #bioethx
T2a What are legal & ethical issues raised by #MedicalTourism for services that are legal in the place where patients are going? #bioethx
T2b What are legal & ethical issues raised by #MedicalTourism for services that are ILLEGAL in the place where patients are going? #bioethx
T3 What are the legal and ethical issues raised by brain drain/medical migration? #bioethx
T4 How does globalization affect how nations maintain organ markets? Can/Should multi-national organ sharing networks be an option? #bioethx
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For more information on this subject, check out:
1. Video: Panel - The Globalization of Healthcare
2. Video: Medical Tourism: Patients Seeking Stem Cell Treatments
3. Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient Protective-Argument
4. Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs
5. Medical Tourism, Access to Health Care, and Global Justice
6. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues – Now Available from OUP
7. How to Regulate Medical Tourism (and Why it Matters for Bioethics)
8. Transplant Tourism: Treating Patients when They Return to the U.S.
9. Should Medical Education Fight International Brain Drain?
10. The Globalization of Healthcare: Legal and Ethical Issues