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Jeremy Snyder

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Verified email at sfu.ca
Cited by 5871

[HTML][HTML] What is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? A scoping review

VA Crooks, P Kingsbury, J Snyder… - BMC health services …, 2010 - Springer
Background 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 …

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

VA Crooks, L Turner, J Snyder, R Johnston… - Social Science & …, 2011 - Elsevier
The practice of medical tourism depends on successfully informing potential patients about
procedure options, treatment facilities, tourism opportunities, travel arrangements, and …

[HTML][HTML] What is known about the effects of medical tourism in destination and departure countries? A scoping review

R Johnston, VA Crooks, J Snyder… - International journal for …, 2010 - Springer
Background Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to
access non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this practice …

[HTML][HTML] Risk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: a thematic content analysis of Canadian broker websites

K Penney, J Snyder, VA Crooks, R Johnston - BMC medical ethics, 2011 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] “I didn't even know what I was looking for”: A qualitative study of the decision-making processes of Canadian medical tourists

R Johnston, VA Crooks, J Snyder - Globalization and health, 2012 - Springer
Background Medical tourism describes the private purchase and arrangement of medical
care by patients across international borders. Increasing numbers of medical facilities in …

The 'patient's physician one-step removed': the evolving roles of medical tourism facilitators

J Snyder, VA Crooks, K Adams, P Kingsbury… - Journal of Medical …, 2011 - jme.bmj.com
Background Medical tourism involves patients travelling internationally to receive medical
services. This practice raises a range of ethical issues, including potential harms to the …

Exploitation and sweatshop labor: Perspectives and issues

J Snyder - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2010 - cambridge.org
In this review, I survey theoretical accounts of exploitation in business, chiefly through the
example of low wage or sweatshop labor. Labor of this kind is often described as self-evidently …

[HTML][HTML] Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists

J Snyder, S Dharamsi, VA Crooks - Globalization and health, 2011 - Springer
Background 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 …

Fund my treatment!: A call for ethics-focused social science research into the use of crowdfunding for medical care

J Snyder, A Mathers, VA Crooks - Social Science & Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Crowdfunding involves raising money from large groups of individuals, often through the use
of websites dedicated to this purpose. Crowdfunding campaigns aimed at raising money to …

Needs exploitation

JC Snyder - Ethical theory and moral practice, 2008 - Springer
Sweatshop labor is often cited as an example of the worst and most pervasive form of exploitation
today, yet understanding what is meant by the charge has proven surprisingly difficult …