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  1. Localized past, globalized future: Towards an effective bioethical framework using examples from population genetics and medical tourism.Heather Widdows - 2010 - Bioethics 25 (2):83-91.
    This paper suggests that many of the pressing dilemmas of bioethics are global and structural in nature. Accordingly, global ethical frameworks are required which recognize the ethically significant factors of all global actors. To this end, ethical frameworks must recognize the rights and interests of both individuals and groups (and the interrelation of these). The paper suggests that the current dominant bioethical framework is inadequate to this task as it is over-individualist and therefore unable to give significant weight to the (...)
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  • Perceptions of the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Comparing Patient and Academic Perspectives.J. Snyder, V. A. Crooks & R. Johnston - 2012 - Public Health Ethics 5 (1):38-46.
    Medical tourism is a practice, whereby individuals travel across national borders with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists are motivated to travel abroad by a number of factors, including the affordability of care abroad, access to treatments not available at home, and wait times for care at home. In this article, we share the findings of interviews conducted with 32 Canadian medical tourists with the aim of developing a better understanding of medical tourism, the ethical issues it raises (...)
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  • New ethical perspectives on medical tourism in the developing world.Jeremy Snyder & Valorie A. Crooks - 2012 - Developing World Bioethics 12 (1):iii-vi.
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  • Beyond sun, sand, and stitches: Assigning responsibility for the Harms of medical tourism.Jeremy Snyder, Valorie Crooks, Rory Johnston & Paul Kingsbury - 2012 - Bioethics 27 (5):233-242.
    Medical tourism (MT) can be conceptualized as the intentional pursuit of non-emergency surgical interventions by patients outside their nation of residence. Despite increasing popular interest in MT, the ethical issues associated with the practice have thus far been under-examined. MT has been associated with a range of both positive and negative effects for medical tourists' home and host countries, and for the medical tourists themselves. Absent from previous explorations of MT is a clear argument of how responsibility for the harms (...)
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  • The problematization of medical tourism: A critique of neoliberalism.Kristen Smith - 2012 - Developing World Bioethics 12 (1):1-8.
    The past two decades have seen the extensive privatisation and marketisation of health care in an ever reaching number of developing countries. Within this milieu, medical tourism is being promoted as a rational economic development strategy for some developing nations, and a makeshift solution to the escalating waiting lists and exorbitant costs of health care in developed nations. This paper explores the need to problematize medical tourism in order to move beyond one dimensional neoliberal discourses that have, to date, dominated (...)
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  • Risk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: A thematic content analysis of canadian broker websites. [REVIEW]Kali Penney, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks & Rory Johnston - 2011 - BMC Medical Ethics 12 (1):17-.
    Background: Medical tourism, thought of as patients seeking non-emergency medical care outside of their home countries, is a growing industry worldwide. Canadians are amongst those engaging in medical tourism, and many are helped in the process of accessing care abroad by medical tourism brokers - agents who specialize in making international medical care arrangements for patients. As a key source of information for these patients, brokers are likely to play an important role in communicating the risks and benefits of undergoing (...)
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  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.Paul Farmer - 2006 - Science and Society 70 (4):564-566.
     
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