Medical tourism

Health & Medicine

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Book extract

A trade in desperation: The rise of stem cell tourism

Book extract: As medicine and health care around the world undergo major changes, a new book “Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope” looks at the rise of people travelling in the hope of a cure

Politics & Society

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Podcast

Cell sell: The ethics of the transnational human tissue market

A highly organised international market in human biological material exists for those desperate enough to pay. But where are the moral lines in this lucrative trade, and how can we police them?