George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow-using a question-and-answer format in much of the text-The Rights of Patients explores all aspects of becoming an informed patient: • hospital organization • hospital rules • emergency treatment • admission and discharge • the patient rights movement • informed consent • surgery • obstetrical care • human experimentation and research • privacy and confidentiality • care of the dying • death, autopsy, and organ donation • medical malpractice.

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If you want your rights to be respected when you are hospitalized, get this book! -Boston Globe

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Book Title: The Rights of Patients
Book Subtitle: The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights
Authors: George J. Annas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0397-1
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: George J. Annas and the American Civil Liberties union 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-182-1Published: 27 April 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6743-0Published: 15 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0397-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 315
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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