The Rights of Patients

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.