The Rights of Patients : The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights

George Annas, Americas 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.