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Patients' Rights

Further Readings



Annas, George J. 2003. The Rights of Patients. 3d ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press.

Barnes, James A. 2002. "Action Versus Inaction." National Journal (March 9).

"Dying Wishes Are Ignored by Hospitals, Doctors." 1996. Trial 32 (February).

Hoffmann, Diane E., Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman, and Catherine J. Tompkins. 1996."The Dangers of Directives or the False Security of Forms." Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 24 (spring).

"Living Wills." West's Legal Forms (Elder Law). 1994 and 1996 Supps. St. Paul, Minn.: West.

Oberman, Michelle. 1996."Minor Rights and Wrongs." Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 24 (summer).

Rodwin, Marc A. 1994. "Patient Accountability and Quality of Care: Lessons from Medical Consumerism and the Patients' Rights, Women's Health and Disability Rights Movements." American Journal of Law and Medicine 20 (spring-summer).

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