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Medical tourism: concepts, ethics, and practices

Edited by Tulsi Patel and Silke Schicktanz

Increasingly consumers are responding to today's economic constraints and global healthcare market by travelling outside of their domestic country to seek alternative options for expensive medical procedures. The availability of apparently reliable medical care in Asia, offered at a fraction of the cost incurred in Western countries has created some lucrative business opportunities. The phenomenon of seeking out healthcare through international travel, known as 'medical tourism', incurs a host of potential moral, ethical, economic and legal benefits, questions, risks and problems.

This cross-journal thematic series explores 'medical tourism' from an interdisciplinary perspective. Articles are included from , , and .

The Editors declare that they have no competing interests.

Collection published: 20 August 2013
Last updated: 6 May 2014

  1. Travel for medical treatment is an aspect of globalization and health that is comparatively less understood. Little is known about volume, characteristic and motivation of medical tourists, limiting understand...

    Authors: Thinakorn Noree, Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:29
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Senior physicians of modern medicine in India play a key role in shaping policies and public opinion and institutional management. This paper explores their perceptions of medical tourism (MT) within India whi...

    Authors: Imrana Qadeer and Sunita Reddy
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2013 8:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. 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...

    Authors: Krystyna Adams, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks and Rory Johnston
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2013 8:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. The socio-ethical concerns regarding exploitation in commercial surrogacy are premised on asymmetric vulnerability and the commercialization of women鈥檚 reproductive capacity to suit individualistic motives. In...

    Authors: Sheela Saravanan
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2013 8:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Infertile couples that travel to another country for reproductive treatment do not refer to themselves as 鈥渞eproductive tourists鈥�. They might even be offended by this term. 鈥淭ourism鈥� is a metaphor with hidden ...

    Authors: Sharon Bassan and Merle A Michaelsen
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2013 8:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Medical tourism 鈥� travel across international borders for health care 鈥� appears to be growing globally, with patients from high-income nations increasingly visiting low- and middle-income countries to access s...

    Authors: Michelle Imison and Stephen Schweinsberg
    Citation: 玖富娛樂城 Public Health 2013 13:109
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  7. Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as f...

    Authors: Leigh Turner
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. The escalation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) in India into a veritable fertility industry is the result of a multitude of reasons. This paper places the bio-genetic industry within the larger po...

    Authors: Nadimpally Sarojini, Vrinda Marwah and Anjali Shenoi
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:27
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  9. Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon with policy implications for health systems, particularly of destination countries. Private actors and governments in Southeast Asia are promoting the medical tourist in...

    Authors: Nicola S Pocock and Kai Hong Phua
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Globalisation has prompted countries to evaluate their position on trade in health services. However, this is often done from a multi-lateral, rather than a regional or bi-lateral perspective. In a previous re...

    Authors: Melisa Mart铆nez 脕lvarez, Rupa Chanda and Richard D Smith
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel abroad to receive health care. Voluntourism is a practice where physicians travel abroad to deliver health care. Both of these practices often ...

    Authors: Jeremy Snyder, Shafik Dharamsi and Valorie A Crooks
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:6
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  12. Medical tourism is understood as travel abroad with the intention of obtaining non-emergency medical services. This practice is the subject of increasing interest, but little is known about its scope.

    Authors: Valorie A Crooks, Paul Kingsbury, Jeremy Snyder and Rory Johnston
    Citation: 玖富娛樂城 Health Services Research 2010 10:266
    Content type: Research article Published on: