Tuesday 15 February 2011

Global Social Policy

The Dec 2010 issue of the journal Global Social Policy is dedicated to international medical travel issues. Here's the TOC (http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/current):

Chee Heng Leng and Andrea Whittaker
Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue: Why is medical travel of concern to global social policy? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 287-291, doi:10.1177/1468018110379627

Meri Koivusalo
Global Social Policy Forum: Introduction: Trade in health services and the commercialization of social and health policies Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 292-293, doi:10.1177/1468018110379689

Chantal Blouin
Trade in health services: Can it improve access to health care for poor people? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 293-295, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030202

Alireza Bagheri
Global health regulations should distinguish between medical tourism and transplant tourism Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 295-297, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030203

David Hunter and Stuart Oultram
The ethical and policy implications of rogue medical tourism Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 297-299, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030204

GKD Crozier
Protecting cross-border providers of ova and surrogacy services? Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 299-303, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030205

Imrana Qadeer
Benefits and threats of international trade in health: A case of surrogacy in India Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 303-305, doi:10.1177/14680181100100030206

Beth Kangas
The burden of pursuing treatment abroad: Three stories of medical travelers from Yemen Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 306-314, doi:10.1177/1468018110379990

Mohd Jamal Alsharif, Ronald Labonté, and Zuxun Lu
Patients beyond borders: A study of medical tourists in four countries Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 315-335, doi:10.1177/1468018110380003

Chee Heng Leng
Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 336-357, doi:10.1177/1468018110379978

Sallie Yea
Trafficking in part(s): The commercial kidney market in a Manila slum, Philippines Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 358-376, doi:10.1177/1468018110379989

Dominique Martin
Medical travel and the sale of human biological materials: Suggestions for ethical policy development Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 377-395, doi:10.1177/1468018110379979

Andrea Whittaker
Challenges of medical travel to global regulation: A case study of reproductive travel in Asia Global Social Policy December 2010 10: 396-415, doi:10.1177/1468018110379981