Rights of Patients, Third Edition

George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Bos­ton University School of Public Health and chair of the Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also a professor at the Boston University School of Law and the Boston University School of Medicine. The author of Judging Medicine, Standard Care, and Some Choice: Law, Medi­cine and the Market, he is a regular contributor to the New England Journal of Medicine and also a cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational association of lawyers and physicians working to­gether to promote human rights and health.

“The Rights of Patients is the Bible of patient rights.”—Charles Inlander, president of the People’s Medical Society “The Rights of Patients should be placed at the bedside of all hospital patients [and read by] nurses, healthcare workers, physicians, and lawyers, all of whom need to learn how to promote and protect patient rights.”—Jay Katz, M.D., Yale Law School“In this remarkable book, the nation’s foremost authority on healthcare law provides crucial advice for asserting your rights in the increasingly complex and uncaring medical bureaucracy. A must-read, this book provides a compassionate and workable blueprint for a healthy and just future for us all.”—Lori B. Andrews, Chicago-Kent Law School