Publications

Leigh Turner. Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace: Content analysis of websites used to market transnational medical travelGlobalization and Health 2011; 7: 40.

Leigh Turner. Quality in health care and globalization of health services: accreditation and regulatory oversight of medical tourism companies. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2011; 23: 1-7.

Valorie Crooks, Leigh Turner, Jeremy Snyder, Rory Johnston, Paul Kingsbury.  Promoting Medical Tourism to India: Messages, Images and the Marketing of International Patient Travel. Social Science and Medicine 2011; 72: 726-732.

Vivien Runnels, Leigh Turner. Bioethics and Transnational Medical Travel: India, ‘Medical Tourism’, and the Globalization of Health CareIndian Journal of Medical Ethics 2011; 1: 42-44.

Leigh Turner. The Coming Backlash Against ‘Medical Tourism’Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2010: 126, 6: 326-327.

Leigh Turner. ’Medical tourism’ and the global marketplace in health services: U.S. patients, international hospitals, and the search for affordable health care.   International Journal of Health Services 2010; 40: 443-467.

Jeremy Snyder, Valorie Crooks, Leigh Turner. Issues and Challenges in Research on the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Reflections from a Conference. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2010: 8: 3-6.

Leigh Turner. Commercial Organ Transplantation in the Philippines. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2009; 18: 192-196.

Leigh Turner. Dental tourism: cross-border travel for dental careJournal of the Canadian Dental Association 2009; 75, 2: 123-125.

Leigh Turner. ’Medical tourism’ initiatives should exclude commercial organ transplantation. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2008; 101: 391-394.

Leigh Turner. Cross-border dental care: ‘dental tourism’ and patient mobility. British Dental Journal 2008; 204: 553-554.

Leigh Turner. Let’s wave goodbye to “transplant tourism”British Medical Journal 2008; 336: 1377.

Leigh Turner. ’First World Health Care at Third World Prices’: Globalization, Bioethics, and Medical Tourism. BioSocieties 2007; 2: 303-325.

Leigh Turner. Medical tourism: Family medicine and international health-related travel. Canadian Family Physician 2007; 53: 1639-1641.

Leigh Turner. From Durham to Delhi: ‘Medical Tourism’ and the Global Economy.  In, Comparative Program on Health and Society Lupina Foundation Working Papers Series 2007. Ed., Bianca Seaton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Leigh Turner. Canadian Medicare and the Global Health Care Bazaar. Policy Options. September: 73-77.

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