Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
I. Glenn Cohen and Dr. Robert Klitzman
Tuesday, February 24, 5:30 – 7:00 PM ET
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Merrill House 170 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065-7478
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Medical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care.
Some seek services like hip replacements and travel to avoid queues, save money, or because their insurer has given them an incentive to do so. Others seek to circumvent prohibitions on accessing services at home and go abroad to receive abortions, assisted suicide, commercial surrogacy, or experimental stem cell treatments.
How safe are these procedures? How do you ensure that you will be protected if anything should happen?
I. Glenn Cohen is professor of law at Harvard Law School and director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He is the author of Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics.
Dr. Robert Klitzman will lead the conversation. He is a professor of psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University.
This event is part of Carnegie Council’s Global Health Series.