Edited by Ronald Labonté, Vivien Runnels, Corinne Packer and Raywat Deonandan
(University of Ottawa). Imagine leaving your own country to buy a surgery or an organ or …

Easy travel to emerging economies with cheaper medical costs turns medical tourism into
big business, writes Christine Lee. Copyright 2007 Christine Lee. No part of this article may …

The opening years of the 21st century have been characterized by a variety of technological,
social, political and economic factors that have seen the disintegration of the meaning and …

Health tourism conceivably emerged in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, but modern
medical tourism in the region only began in the 1990s, with the wider transnationalism of …

Consultants predicted it would be a major business. Large employers and insurers were
experimenting with it. But medical tourism has not lived up to the heady expectations. The …

Medical Tourism is an overview of the rise of this niche in different parts of the world,
building on an historic perspective, and an analysis of the marketing, economics, and ethical …

Travel for health reasons is not new.'Taking the waters' has long been a pursuit of those who
could afford the travel to spa destinations, often crossing borders to do so. There are …

For many reasons numbers are at the heart of medical tourism. From an industry perspective
it is essential to establish the scale of medical tourism so as to normalise it and the potential …

In this chapter, the authors examine the 'medical tourism'phenomenon and some of the
interesting controversies that underlie the growth of the sector. According to a report by Frost …

Definitions of medical tourism are wide-ranging, inadequate and without consensus hence
statistics on who medical tourists are, where they are travelling, what they are engaged in …