Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism
ISBN: 9780990976394
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia Global Reports
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Public Health;

Today more people travel to Hungary for dental care than to any other country in Europe. The fascinating story of how Hungary became Europe's dental chair is a case study in medical tourism, which has become a growing multi-billion-dollar industry -- exploding in places as varied as India, Brazil, Korea, and Costa Rica -- as countries rewrite laws to compete for patients. Doctors and dentists have to run a business, but does globalization destroy the dream of high-quality universal health care? Sasha Issenberg, the acclaimed author of The Sushi Economy and The Victory Lab , goes on the trail of dental tourism in Eastern Europe in search of answers.


Sasha Issenberg is the author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns (2012) and The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy (2007). He is the Washington correspondent for Monocle and a contributor to Bloomberg Politics. He covered the 2008 election as a national political correspondent for The Boston Globe and the 2012 election as a columnist for Slate . His work has also appeared in The New Republic , The New York Times Magazine , and George , where he was a contributing editor. He is currently a resident scholar in the UCLA Department of Political Science and lives in Los Angeles.
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