Medical Tourism in Developing Countries

by Milica Zarkovic Bookman, Karla R. Bookman

Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market.

245 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2007

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am happy the academic literature on medical tourism is growing. But I disagree with the authors assertion that medical tourism will have any sort of trickle down effect that will positively impact the public health sector in the majority of the countries they examine. At best, this analysis demonstrates wishful, neoliberal thinking. At worst, this book serves as a way of justifying and perpetuating existing inequalities of global health by reframing them as a market advantage.