Selected Bibliography for Medical Tourism (The Most Comprehensive Bibliography on the subject on the web) (Last update 22 Mar 2010, n=212 references and counting!) Please note the attempt to post references that have free and easy access from Internet sources. Numerous studies are found in print material. Please email us at recgeog (at) gmail.com with web accessible documents and studies! Abhiyan, J. (2006). Globalisation and Health. Towards the National health Assembly II. Retrieved 22 Mar 09 from http://www.esocialsciences.com/data/articles/Document12512007440.470791.pdf Altman, S., D. Shactman, and E. Eliat. (2006). Could US Hospitals Go the Way of US Airlines? Health Affairs. 25(1):11-21. Retrieved 23 Mar 09 from http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/1/11. American Medical Association. (2008). New AMA Guidelines on Medical Tourism. Retrieved 11 May 2009 from http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/07/07/prse0707.htm Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin. (2008). Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program. Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week,466. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1597943281). Association Resource Centre, Inc. (2006). Spa, Health & Wellness Sector: foreign competitor profiles. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.corporate.canada.travel/docs/research_and_statistics/ product_knowledge/Spa_Health_Wellness_Sector_Foreign_Competitor_Profile_eng.pdf Alsever, J. (2006). Basking on the Beach, or maybe on the Operating Table. October 15, 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2007 from NYTimes.com Associated Press. (2007). Issues Poll. Retrieved 8 April 2008 from http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-28-issuespoll_N.htm ABC News/Washington Post Poll. (2008). ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Retrieved 6 May 2008 from http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm Bagchi, S. (2008). Growth generates health care challenges in booming India. Canadian Medical Association. Journal, 178(8), 981-3. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1455696691). Bakic, O. and Hrabovski-Tomic, E. (2008). Informal Education for Management in Health Tourism. Tourism and Hospitability Management. 14(1):1-12. (Retrieved 7 Jan 09 from http://www.fthm.hr/files/vol._14_no._1.pdf#page=10). Baldoria, F. and Osana, J. (2007). Medical Tourism: A Booming Industry. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Business Friday Section (Lexis Nexis). Barmeyer, J. (2007). The Next Generation of Vacations – Medical Tourism. Insight Business. Retrieved 30 January 2009 from http://www.usc.edu/org/InsightBusiness/SP07articles/medical.html Barron, N. (2008). Seeking Beauty, Cutting costs: Why so many Americans go under the knife abroad. Master of Art Thesis at University of Southern California. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://digarc.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/item/etd-Barron-20080415.pdf. Begde, P. (2008). Opportunity and challenges for Medical tourism in India. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/handle/2259/576. Bennett, T. (2009) 'Medical Tourism: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?', Intensive workshop on health systems in transition, University of Malaya, 29-30 April. Retrieved 1 Feb 10 from http://cpds.fep.um.edu.my/events/2009/workshop/29042009/PPT%20&%20full%20paper/session%204 /MedTourismKLAp2009%5B1%5D-TRUDE%20BENNETTE.pdf Bennett, M, B. King, L. Milner. The Health resort sector in Australia: A positioning study. Journal of Vacation Marketing. Retrieved 15 May 2009 from http://jvm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/122 Bezruchka, S. (2000). Medical Tourism as medical harm in the third world: why, For Whom? Wilderness Environmental Medicine. 11:77-78. Retrieved 25 Oct 09 from Bhangale, V. (2008). Medical Tourism: Taking a big way in India. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/578/1/365-368+Prof.Vijay+Bhangale.pdf Bhattacharya, M. (2008). Advantage Gujarat in Medical Tourism. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India- Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/581/1/405-417+Mousumi.pdf. Bies, W. and L. Zacharia. (2007). Medical Tourism: Outsourcing surgery. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 46:1144-1159. Bishop, R. and J. Litch. (2000). Medical Tourism can do harm (Personal View). BMJ. 8 April 2000. 320:1017 Blouin, C. (2007). Trade policy and health: from conflicting interests to policy coherence. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85:169-73. Blyth, E. and A. Farrand. (2005). Reproductive tourism – a price worth paying for reproductive autonomy? Critical Social Policy, Vol 25(10):91-114. Bookman, M. Z., and Bookman, K. R. (2007). Medical Tourism in Developing Countries. New York: Palgrave. Borman, E. (2004). Health Tourism: Where healthcare, ethics, and the state collide. BMJ. 10 January 2004. 328:60-1. Budiani-saberi, D. and F. Delmonico. (2008) American Journal of Transplantation. 8(5)925-929. Retrieved 15 Feb 10 from http://cofs.org/COFS-Publications/Budiani_and_Delmonico- AJT_April_2008.pdf Burkhart, L. and Gentry, L. (2008). Medical Tourism: What you should know. The Saturday Evening Post Jan/Feb 2008, 280:1, p 52-53, 90, 92, 94. Brenzel, L. and E. Le Franc (2007). Opportunities and Challenges for expanding trade in health services in the English-speaking Caribbean. World Bank. Retrieved 25 Oct 09 from http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/health- systems&id=38012&type=Document&em=240608&sub=hsys Bristow, R. (2008). Medical Tourism Survey Homepage. Retrieved 19 December 2008 from http://www.wsc.ma.edu/medicaltourism/ Bristow, R. (2008). Eco-medical tourism in Costa Rica: is it sustainable? 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Burlington, VT, USA, June 2008. Abstract available at http://www.issrm2008.org/abstractdisp_popup.php?useprikey=Y&prikey=13&id=224 Bristow, R. (2009). Eco-medical tourism: can it be sustainable? In: Klenosky, David B.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc, eds. Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 2008 March 30 - April 1; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-42. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 158-164. Retrieved 11 May 09 from http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/14669 Bristow, R., Yang, W. and Lu, M. (2009). Mineral spas to cosmetic surgery: is health tourism sustainable? 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vienna, Austria July 2009. Brown, S. (2008). Medical tourism: nations vie for health dollars. Hospitals & health Networks (Dec 2008). 82(12):49. Bryant, R. (2002). Despite Turbulent times, Dead Sea draws medical tourism. Dermatology Times, 23(2):8. Buccilli, E., and R. Stefanacci. (2008) Travel Assistance and Medical Tourism. Assisted Living Consult. March/April 2008. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://www.assistedlivingconsult.com/issues/04-02/alc34- Travel-331.pdf Burkett, L. (2007). Medical Tourism: Concerns, Benefits, and the American Legal Perspective. Journal of legal Medicine. 28(2):223-245. Caballero-Danell, S. and C. Mugomba. (2007). Medical Tourism and its Entrepreneurial Opportunities – a conceptual framework for entry into the industry. Master Thesis Goteborg University. Retrieved 22 Mar 09 from http://hdl.handle.net/2077/4671. Canadian Tourism Commission. (2006). Identifying the Spa Traveler: A Look at US and Canadian Consumer Attitudes and Motivators for Spa Vacations. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.corporate.canada.travel/docs/research_and_statistics/product_knowledge/Identifying_the _Spa_Traveler_2006.pdf Carabello, L. (2008). Tourism Primer for US Physicians. Medical Practice Management. March/April 2008. Retrieved 12 Jan 09 from http://www.medicaltraveltoday.com/MTTE08/Mar_Apr_2008_291-294.pdf Carrera, P. (2006). Medical tourism. Health Affairs 25(5):1453. Casabona Martinez, I., et al. (2005). El nuevo fenómeno europeo del turismo de salud : estado de la cuestión”. Cultura de los cuidados. Año IX, nº 18, 2. semestre 2005, pp. 38-44. Retrieved 23 Mar 09 from http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/993 Castonguay, G. and A. Brown. (1993). Plastic Surgery Tourism proving a boon for Costa Rica’s surgeons. Canadian Medical Association Journal 148(1): 74-76. Chambers, D. and B. McIntosh. (2008). Using Authenticity to Achieve Competitive in Medical Tourism in the English-speaking Caribbean. Third World Quarterly. 29(5):919-937. Chaynee, W. (2003). Health Tourism to Drive Earnings. Mierscope (The Malaysian Institute of Economic Research). Retrieved 7 Feb 09 from http://www.mier.org.my/mierscan/archives/pdf/chaynee19_4_2003.pdf Chakravarthy, K., Ravi Kumar, C.H., and Deepthi, K. (2008). SWOT Analysis on Medical Tourism (presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/577/1/357-364+Kalyan.pdf Chee, H. (2007). Medical Tourism in Malaysia: International Movement of Healthcare Consumers and the Commodification of Healthcare (January 1, 2007). Asia Research Institute Working Paper No. 83. Retrieved 28 Dec 2008 from http://ssrn.com/abstract=1317163 Chen, J. (2007). Wellness Tourism: Measuring Consumers’ Quality of Life. In Chen et al editors. Proceedings of the First Hospitality and Leisure: Business Advances and Applied Research Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland. July 2007.