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Circumvention Medical Tourism and Cutting Edge Medicine: The Case of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 25, Issue 1, 2018
- pp. 439-462
- 10.2979/indjglolegstu.25.1.0439
- Article
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Abstract:
"Medical Tourism" is the travel of patients from a home country to a destination country for the primary purpose of receiving health care. "Circumvention Tourism" is a sub-type of such travel where the motivation is circumventing a domestic prohibition on accessing a medical service. This Article focuses on such circumvention tourism for cutting-edge medicine. I use the recently reported case of travel to Mexico for Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy as a springboard for examining the legal and ethical issues raised by the practice and to discuss restrictive regulation in place in the United States.