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Annas, George J. was born on July 13, 1945 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. Son of George J. and Margaret L. (Pallansch) Annas.
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Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice. This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the US is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have artificially separated bioethics and health law from the international human rights movement, American bioethics can be reborn as a global force for good, instead of serving mainly the purposes of U.S. academics. This thesis is explored in a variety of international contexts such as terrorism and genetic engineering, and in U.S. domestic disputes such as patient rights and market medicine. The citizens of the world have created two universal codes: science has sequenced the human genome and the United Nations has produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The challenge for American bioethics is to combine these two great codes in imaginative and constructive ways to make the world a better, and healthier, place to live.
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The authoritative ACLU guide to patient rights in a completely revised edition Now in its third edition, The Rights of Patients has long been considered the definitive guide to understanding the legal and ethical issues patients face in our often mismanaged healthcare system. Offering fully documented exposition and explanation of the rights of patients from birth to death, this concise reference covers topics such as informed consent, emergency treatment, refusing treatment, human experimentation, privacy and confidentiality, patient safety, and medical malpractice. George J. Annas’s fully revised and updated edition also offers specific advice to individuals on serving as patient advocates for friends and family members and focuses on helping patients and their advocates preserve their human rights, as well as their independence and dignity, while undergoing medical care. The volume is an invaluable resource not only for patients and their families, but also for physicians, hospital administrators, medical and nursing students, and other healthcare workers. Among the helpful appendixes Annas includes are a discussion of internet resources and a pregnant patient’s bill of rights.
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American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major force shaping American bioethics. This is both because law at its best fosters individual rights, equality, and justice, and because violation of the legal duty or "standard of care" a physician owes a patient can lead to a malpractice suit. The law has therefore had two conflicting impacts on medical ethics: the positive effect of eroding paternalism and replacing it with a patient-centered ethic; and the negative effect of encouraging physicians to be more concerned with avoiding litigation than doing the "right" thing. Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society by examining courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes, often of constitutional dimension. This case-based approach, which ranges from abortion to euthanasia, from AIDS to organ transplantation, from genetic research to the artificial heart and rationing, illuminates the value choices with which the power (and impotence) of medicine confronts us. George Annas urges health care professionals to go beyond the minimalist legal "standard of care" by promoting a vigorous, patient-centered medical ethics based on respect for human rights and responsibility to both patients and society. If modern medicine is to enhance human life, a reconceptualization of law as the beginning of ethical discourse, rather than as an instrument to end it, is essential. Such a discourse could enrich all our lives by helping us to articulate both a national and international agenda for human rights in health.
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This book is a passionate critique of the shallowness of choice rhetoric used to camouflage critical personal and public policy issues in contemporary debates in American medicine. Our public discourse on life and death, from health care to medical research, and from risky behavior to assisted suicide, is dominated by the market model of consumerism augmented by appeals to individual freedom. In fact, however, in most cases there is no real choice left for individuals to make; the important choices have been made by others, and the illusion of choice fosters complacency. Knee-jerk libertarianism leads to a superficial consumer culture and life choices valued only by their monetary value. Some Choice uses the cases of cloning, drive-through deliveries, emergency medicine, genetic privacy, human experimentation, tobacco control, and physician-assisted suicide, among others, to suggest ways in which we can break through our vapid and superficial public discourse on life and death issues and begin to engage in a public dialogue that enriches our lives and society rather than cheapens them. George Annas is one of the most widely recognized names in current bioethics debates. His goal in this new book is to help open a national and international dialogue that sees the search for universal human rights as valuable, and international cooperation to define, protect, and promote them as central to life.
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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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Annas, George J. was born on July 13, 1945 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. Son of George J. and Margaret L. (Pallansch) Annas.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1967;
Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1970;
Master in Public Health, Harvard University, 1972;
Doctor of Humane Letters, Salem State College, 1994.
Director, Boston University Center for Law and Health Sciences, 1972-1977;
associate professor health law, Boston University School Medicine, 1977-1982;
professor health law, chair department health law, Boston University Schools Medicine and Public Health, since 1982;
director law, medicine and ethics program, Boston University, since 1988. Chair Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, Boston, 1973-1977. Vice chair Massachusetts Board Registration in Medicine, Boston, 1976-1982.
Chair Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplantation, 1983-1984. Co-founder Global Lawyersand Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights, 1996.
George J. Annas has been listed as a noteworthy Health law educator by Marquis Who's Who.
(The Rights of Patients: The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient R...)
(This book is a passionate critique of the shallowness of ...)
(George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient righ...)
( Now in its third edition, The Rights of Patients offers...)
(Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American b...)
(American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major fo...)
( The authoritative ACLU guide to patient rights in a com...)
(Book by Elias, Sherman, Annas, George J.)
Member American Bar Association (Chairman of Commission on legal problems in medicine science and technical section), APHA (Humanitarian award 1982), Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (Milton Greenblatt award 1996), Institute Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Frances Roche, August 17, 1969. Children: Katie, David.
