Electronic Medical Tourism and the Medical World Wide Web

Date

2013

Citation

Gil Siegal, Electronic Medical Tourism and the Medical World Wide Web, in The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, Oxford University Press, 341–358 (2013).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Gil Siegal

Intellectual Property

Health Law

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