Completely Revised The Rights of Patients Third Edition George J. Annas   January 2004 paper, 0-8093-2515-2, $19.95 432 pages, 6 x 9 Healthcare / Legal Studies   An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook      “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     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 version 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.     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.