The Rights of Patients

The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights

George J. Annas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

315 Seiten

2012 | 2nd ed. 1992. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1992
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-4612-6743-0 (ISBN)

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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.

I. The Patient Rights Movement.- II. How Hospitals Are Organized.- III. Rules Hospitals Must Follow.- IV. Emergency Medicine.- V. Admission and Discharge.- VI. Informed Consent.- VII. Surgery.- VIII. Pregnancy and Birth.- IX. Human Experimentation and Research.- X. Medical Records.- XI. Privacy and Confidentiality.- XII. Care of the Dying.- XIII. Death, Organ Donation, and Autopsy.- XIV. Medical Malpractice.- XV. The Patient Rights Advocate.- A Other Resources.- B. Patient Bill of Rights Act.- C. Sample Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney.- D. Right to Refuse Treatment Act.- E. How to Use Law and Medical Libraries.

If you want your rights to be respected when you are hospitalized, get this book! -Boston Globe

Zusatzinfo	XVI, 315 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	1-4612-6743-9 / 1461267439
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-6743-0 / 9781461267430
Zustand	Neuware