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Transplant Tourism

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Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

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Abstract

The key arguments of this chapter are as follows:

  • Because of increasing numbers of patients requiring transplantation, more people are considering transplant tourism as a necessary option.

  • Several studies show that complication rates are higher and graft and patient survival rates may be lower in transplant tourists returning to the US.

  • Numerous professional transplant societies have produced consensus or position statements regarding transplant tourism, and these are summarised in the current chapter.

  • Transplant tourism to the People’s Republic of China has raised the issues and dilemma of the use of executed prisoners as donors.

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Authors
  1. Thomas D. Schiano
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

    David Botterill

  2. Ghent University, Belgium

    Guido Pennings

  3. NHTV Breda University, The Netherlands

    Tomas Mainil

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Schiano, T.D., Rhodes, R. (2013). Transplant Tourism. In: Botterill, D., Pennings, G., Mainil, T. (eds) Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338495_8

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