Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Medical Tourism Industry

Part I: Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Patient's Home Country

Chapter 2: Quality and Information

Chapter 3: Legal Liability

Chapter 4: Medical Tourism Through Private Health Insurance

Chapter 5: Medical Tourism Through Public Health Insurance: The EU Model and Beyond

Chapter 6: Medical Tourism's Effects on the Destination Country: An Empirical and Ethical Examination.

Part II: Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in the Patient's Home Country

Chapter 7: Transplant Tourism

Chapter 8: Medical Tourism and Ending Life: Travel for Assisted Suicide and Abortion

Chapter 9: Medical Tourism and the Creation of Life: A Study of Fertility Tourism

Chapter 10: Medical Tourism for Experimental Therapies: An In-Depth Exploration of Stem Cell Therapy Tourism.

Index

About the Author

I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (or medical ethics), and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. Prior to becoming a professor, he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as
a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court. He was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2012-2013)
and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. He also leads the Ethics and Law initiative as part of the multi-million dollar NIH funded Harvard Catalyst for The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center program. Professor Cohen is the author of more than 60 articles and chapters, and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal law review journals including: Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California; medical journals including the New
England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA; bioethics journals including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report; and for public health, the American Journal of Public Health. He is the
editor of The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Reviews

"A definitive examination of exceptionally thorny issues on the horizon, or already here."
-Harvard Magazine
"This timely book will prove helpful to policymakers, legal scholars, and patients around the world seeking to understand the social and legal implications of the growing medical tourism industry."
-Harvard Law Review