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Some Choice: Law, Medicine, and the Market (1998) by George J. Annas. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1998. 320 pp. $29.95
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2000
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George Annas serves a critical function as an incisive commentator on the interactions between law and medicine and law and public health. Along with Alex Capron, Dena Davis, Rebecca Dresser, and Larry Gostin—to pinpoint a few—Professor Annas analyses legal aspects of a spectrum of medicolegal issues both in a forum and in a manner that makes them accessible and understandable to a broad community of healthcare providers. His latest book, Some Choice, continues that valuable tradition. The bulk of the volume (17 out of 22 chapters) is drawn from essays originally published as the “Legal Issues in Medicine” feature of the New England Journal of Medicine. The topics include such staples of patients' rights debate as the boundaries of informed consent, authorization of medical experiments, and physician-assisted suicide. A treat is the inclusion of less frequently covered issues, such as access to health information concerning presidential candidates and constitutional bounds of limits on cigarette advertising.
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