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

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...

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Main Author: Annas, George J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 1992.
Edition:Second Edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 315 pages)
ISBN:9781461203971 (electronic bk.)
146120397X (electronic bk.)