Health and wellness: a background to medical tourism / Malcolm Cooper -- Medical tourism or 'medical examination and treatment abroad': an economic study of the phenomenon / Yasuo Uchida -- Dive with the sharks: a content analysis of the medical tourism supply chain / Yudi Fernando, Lee Hwee Khei -- The psychology of medical tourism / M. Hieda -- Customer-perceived value of medical tourism / Eunhee Sung, Wilson Ozuem -- The ethics of medical tourism / Nader Ghotbi -- The role of medical tourism in emerging markets / Kijpokin Kasemsap -- Medical nomads: an emerging arm of medical tourism / Hitoshi Noguchi -- Reproductive medicine and medical tourism / Takafumi Utsunomiya -- The Surrogacy Trail / M. Hieda -- "Almost invisible scars": medical tourism to Brazil / Alexander Edmonds -- An early pioneer of medical tourism's use of the internet and social media / Phillip D. Pardo -- Gathering medical tourism information through algorithmic text analysis of tweets / William Claster, Nader Ghotbi, Subana Shanmuganathan -- Stress relief across borders / Tomiyo Fukagawa -- Tourism for welfare, transformation, and spiritual development / Sarang Shirish Nandedkar -- Respite tourism for family caregivers / Robert Holda -- The dark side of medical tourism?: end of life choice, human trafficking, and organ transplants / Malcolm Cooper, Mayumi Hieda -- Potentials and prospects of medical tourism in Chennai, India / Muthukumar Thilakavathy -- Health tourism in Iran / A. Ayoubian -- Singapore and Malaysia / Jerry Eades, Malcolm Cooper -- The development, nature, and impact of medical tourism in Bangladesh / Azizul Hassan, Mojib Uddin Ahamed, Muhammad Shoeb-Ur-Rahman -- The Americas / Phillip D. Pardo -- The emerging markets of the Asian region / Kazem Vafadari -- Inbound, outbound, and domestic: the current situation in the Chinese medical tourism market / Kazem Vafadari -- The growth of medical tourism: recent trends and issues / Jerry Eades.