Health and Medical Tourism: Kill or Cure for Global Public Health? C. Michael Hall C. MICHAEL HALL Department of Management University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, 8140 New Zealand Email: michael.hall@canterbury.ac.nz C. Michael Hall is Professor in the Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, Kalmar, Sweden. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism he has published widely in the areas of tourism, mobility, environmental history and gastronomy. 1