Ethics / Bioethics

Adams, K., Snyder, J., Crooks, V. A. and Johnston, R. (2013). Promoting social responsibility amongst health care users: Medical tourists’ perspectives on an information sheet   regarding ethical concerns in medical tourism. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 8(19). https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-8-19

Amodeo, J. (2010). Medical refugees and the future of health tourism. World Medical & Health Policy, 2(4), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.2202/1948-4682.1103

Aruru, M., & Salmon, J. (2007). Medical and pharmaceutical outsourcing to India: Ethical considerations and policy implications. Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics and Policy, 16(3), 43-54. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280733394

Borman, E. (2004).  Health Tourism: Where healthcare, ethics, and the state collide.  British Medical Journal, 328(7431), 60-61. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7431.60

Chen, Y. Y. B., & Flood, C. M. (2013). Medical tourism's impact on health care equity and access in low- and middle-income countries: making the case for regulation. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(1), 286–300. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12019

Dyer, C. (2003). Swiss parliament may try to ban “suicide tourism”. British Medical Journal, 326(7383), 242. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242

English, V., Gardner, J., Romano-Critchley, G., & Sommerville, A. (2001). Ethics briefings.  Journal of Medical Ethics. 27(3), 284-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.27.3.203

Demme, R. A.  (2010). Ethical concerns about an organ market. Journal of the National Medical Association, 102(1), 46-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0027-9684(15)30477-6

Gilmartin, M., & White, A. (2011). Interrogating medical tourism: Ireland, abortion, and mobility rights. Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 36(2), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1086/655907

Gray, H., & S. Poland. (2008). Medical tourism: Crossing borders to access health care. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Georgetown University, 18(2), 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.0.0006

Gupta, A. S. (2008). Medical tourism in India: winners and losers. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 5(1): 4-5. https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2008.002

Hunter, D. and Oultram, S. (2010). The ethical and policy implications of rogue medical tourism. Global Social Policy, 10(3), 297-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181100100030204

Johnson, R. L., Saha, S., Arbelaez, J. J., Beach, M. C., & Cooper, L. A. (2004). Racial and ethnic differences in patient perceptions of bias and cultural competence in health care. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19(2), 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.30262.x

Kim, S., Hahm, K-H., Park, H. W., Kang, H. H., & Sohn, M. (2010). A Korean perspective on developing a global policy for advance directives. Bioethics, 24(3), 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01787.x

Laric, M., Pitta, D., & Katsanis, L. (2009). Consumers concern for healthcare information privacy: A comparison of US and Canadian Perspectives. Research in Healthcare Financial Management, 12(1), 93-111. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289205355

López, L. & Jha, A. K. (2013). Outcomes for whites and blacks at hospitals that disproportionately care for black Medicare beneficiaries. Health Services Research, 48(1), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01445

Lozanski, K. (2015). Transnational surrogacy: Canada's contradictions. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 383-390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.003

Malchesky, P. S. (2011). Organ replacement, medical device costs, and medical tourism: Globalization of the clinical application of artificial organ technologies? Artificial Organs, 35(12), 1139-1141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01396

Mayberry, R. M., Mili, F., & Ofili, E. (2000). Racial and ethnic differences in access to medical care. Medical Care Research and Review, 57(1), 108-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558700057001S06

Meghani, Z. (2011). A robust, particularist ethical assessment of medical tourism. Developing World Bioethics, 11(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8847.2010.00282.x

Meissner-Roloff, M., & Pepper, M. S. (2013). Curbing stem cell tourism in South Africa. Applied & Translational Genomics, 2, 22-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2013.05.001

Moghimehfar, F., & Nasr-Esfahani, M. (2011). Decisive factors in medical tourism destination choice: A case study of Isfahan, Iran and fertility treatments. Tourism Management, 32(6), 1431-1434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2011.01.005

Murdoch, C., & Scott, C. (2010). Stem cell tourism and the power of hope. American Journal of Bioethics, 10(5), 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161003728860

Pennings, G. (2002).  Reproductive tourism as moral pluralism in motion. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28(6), 337-341. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.28.6.337

Pfeffer, N. (2011). Eggs-ploiting women: A critical feminist analysis of the different principles in transplant and fertility tourism. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 23(5), 634-641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.08.005

Rhodes, R., & Schiano, T. (2010). Transplant tourism in China: A tale of two transplants. American Journal of Bioethics, 10(2), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265160903558781

Smith, K. (2012). The problematization of medical tourism: A critique of neoliberalism. Developing World Bioethics, 12(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8847.2012.00318.x

Snyder, J., Crooks, V. A., Adams, K., Kingsbury, P. and Johnston, R. (2011). The ‘patient’s physician one-step removed’: The evolving roles of medical tourism facilitators. Journal of Medical Ethics, 37(9), 530-534. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2011.042374

Snyder, J., & Crooks, V. (2012). New ethical perspectives on medical tourism in the developing world. Developing World Bioethics, 12(1), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8847.2012.00321.x

Snyder, J., Crooks, V., & Johnston, R. (2012). Perceptions of the ethics of medical tourism: Comparing patient and academic perspectives. Public Health Ethics, 5(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phr034

Somnath, S., Komaromy, M., Koepsell, T. D., & Bindman, A. B. (1999). Patient-physician racial concordance and the perceived quality and use of health care. Archives of Internal Medicine, 159(9), 997-1004. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.159.9.997

Sury, J, S. Johnson, K. Ng, & Montriwat P. (2007). Medical tourism: the unspoken risk benefit ratio. Columbia University Journal of Bioethics

Turner, L. (2008). ‘Medical tourism’ initiatives should exclude commercial organ transplantation.  Journal of Royal Society of Medicine. 101(8), 391-394. https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2008.080058

Turner, L. (2009). Commercial organ transplantation in the Philippines. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 18(2), 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180109090318

Van Hoof, W., Pennings, G., & De Sutter, P. (2015). Cross-border reproductive care for law evasion: A qualitative study into the experiences and moral perspectives of French women who go to Belgium for treatment with donor sperm. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 391-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.018

Widdows, H. (2011). Localized past, globalized future: Towards an effective bioethical framework using examples from population genetics and medical tourism. Bioethics, 25(2), 83-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01868.x

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