Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

Date: 

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall, Casperson Room, 1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

I. Glenn Cohen's new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics  (Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both the legal and ethical issues raised by medical tourism and how the two interact, it provides the best currently available data and explanations of the industry and tackles the most prevalent legal and ethical issues facing medical tourism today.

This book talk and discussion will feature:

  • I. Glenn Cohen, author, Petrie-Flom Faculty Director, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

  • Amitabh Chandra, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

  • Nir Eyal, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Medical Ethics), Harvard Medical School

  • Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer on Global Health, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

This event is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library.