The Rights of Patients: The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights
- ISBN-10
- 146120397X
- ISBN-13
- 9781461203971
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-06
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Author
- George J. Annas
Description
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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Other editions
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- 1992-04-27
- 348 pages
- Paperback
- Springer Science & Business Media
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- 2004-11-15
- 387 pages
- Paperback
- NYU Press
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