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.

IntroductionGlenn Cohen Patient Mortality In Medical Tourism: Examining News Media Reports Of Deaths Following Travel For Cosmetic Surgery And Bariatric SurgeryPart I: Medical TourismFor Services Legal in the Patient's Home CountryChapter OneLeigh Turner Patient Mortality In Medical Tourism: Examining News Media Reports Of Deaths Following Travel For Cosmetic Surgery And Bariatric SurgeryChapter TwoThomas R. McLean Jurisdiction 101 For Medical Tourism Purchases Made In EuropeChapter ThreeValorie A. Crooks Canadian Print News Media Coverage Of Medical Tourism: ExaminingJeremy Snyder Key Themes And Ethical GapsLeigh TurnerKrystyna AdamsRory JohnstonVictoria CaseyChapter FourNathan Cortez Cross-Border Health Care And The Hydraulics Of Health ReformChapter FiveHilko J. Meyer Current Legislation On Cross-Border Healthcare In The European UnionChapter SixI. Glenn Cohen Medical Tourism And Global JusticeFor Services Illegal or Unapproved in the Patient's Home CountryChapter SevenRichard F. Storrow The Proportionality Problem In Cross-Border Reproductive CareChapter EightKimberly M. Mutcherson Open Fertility Borders: Defending Access To Cross Border Fertility Care In The United StatesChapter NineHazel Biggs Tourism: A Matter Of Life And Death In The United KingdomCaroline JonesChapter TenAaron D. Levine The Roles And Responsibilities Of Physicians In Patients' Decisions AboutLeslie E. Wolf Unproven Stem Cell TherapiesChapter ElevenVivien Runnels Global Policies And Local Practice In The Ethical Recruitment OfCorinne Packer Internationally Trained Health Human ResourcesRonald Labont?Part II: Medical Worker MigrationChapter TwelveNir Eyal Conditioning Medical Scholarships On Long, Future Service: A DefenseTill B?rnighausenChapter ThirteenAllyn L. Taylor A Global Legal Architecture To Address The Challenges Of InternationalIbadat S. Dhillon Health Worker Migration: A Case Study Of The Role Of Non-Binding Instruments InGlobal Health GovernancePart III: The Globalization of Research and DevelopmentChapter FourteenTrudo Lemmons Clinical Trials Registration And Results Reporting And The Right To HealthCandice TelferChapter FifteenRobert Gatter The New Global Framework for Pandemic Influenza Virus and Vaccine SharingChapter SixteenBethany Spielman Offshoring Experiments, Outsourcing Public Health: Corporate Accountability AndState Responsibility For Violating The International Prohibition On NonconsensualHuman ExperimentationChapter SeventeenCynthia M. Ho Beyond Patents: Global Challenges to Affordable MedicineChapter EighteenKevin Outterson Combating Antibiotic Resistance Through The Health Impact FundThomas PoggeAidan HollisPart IV: TelemedicineChapter NineteenGil Siegal Electronic Medical Tourism And The Medical World Wide WebChapter TwentyDeth Sao Legal And Regulatory Barriers To Telemedicine In The UnitedAmar Gupta States: Public And Private Approaches Toward Health Care ReformDavid A. GantzPart V: Health Care Globalization, Equity, and JusticeChapter Twenty-OneJennifer Prah Ruger Global Health Governance as Shared Health GovernanceChapter Twenty-TwoDaniel S. Goldberg Global Health Care Is Not Global Health: Populations, Inequities, And Law As ASocial Determinant Of HealthChapter Twenty-ThreePavlos Eleftheriadis Global Rights and the Sanctity of Life