In this article, we examine emerging challenges to medical law arising from healthcare globalisation concerning disputes between parents and healthcare professionals in the care and treatment of critically ill children. We explore a series of issues emerging in English case law concerning...

Medical tourism involves patients’ intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical evidence regarding health and safety risks facing medical tourists is limited. Consideration of this issue is dominated by speculation and lacks meaningful input from people...

This study looked at patterns of participating in medical tourism (MT) among consumers in South-Eastern region of North Carolina. The framework of four modes of medical tourism (Gan and Frederick, 2011) was used to examine how consumers participate in MT through four channels: on their own, use...