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A ROBUST, PARTICULARIST ETHICAL ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL TOURISM
Author(s) -
MEGHANI ZAHRA
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2010.00282.x
Subject(s) - medical tourism , tourism , health care , medical practice , medical care , heading (navigation) , sociology , political science , law , geography , medicine , nursing , family medicine , geodesy
Recently, in increasing numbers, citizens of wealthy nations are heading to poorer countries for medical care. They are traveling to the global South as medical tourists because in their home nations either they cannot get timely medical care or they cannot afford needed treatments. This essay offers a robust, particularist ethical assessment of the practice of citizens of richer nations traveling to poorer countries for healthcare.