Clinical ethics: medical tourism in children

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK giles.birchley@bristol.ac.uk.
² Women And Childrens, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing, West Sussex, UK.
³ Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Editorial

Giles Birchley et al. Arch Dis Child. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;106(12):1143-1144.

doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322778. Epub 2021 Sep 22.

¹ Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK giles.birchley@bristol.ac.uk.
² Women And Childrens, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing, West Sussex, UK.
³ Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: ethics; global health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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