...: the fact that the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and the for-profit market for technologies have a growing impact on shaping research agendas and thus on shaping treatments. Medicare treatment standards Big Pharma medical cost reimbursement ...

... Dubai is the Middle East’s most “global city,” and the only one from the region to make the top-ten list of medical tourism destinations. Through state-sponsored cultural cosmopolitanism, Dubai is becoming an attractive destination for “global cosmopolitans”—mostly young professional couples...

... to Conceive have already tried IVF “back home” or in other clinics in the Emirates. Patients’ critiques of IVF services and their feelings of disenchantment are recounted in this chapter, which includes several “medical horror stories” involving serious cases of transnational malpractice and medical harm...