George J. Annas

TL;DR: This work supports conclusions of the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Population Screening for the Cystic Fibrosis Gene, which state that carrier testing should be offered to all individuals or couples with a family history of cystic fibrosis, and pilot programs that investigate research questions in the delivery of population screening for cystic fibre carriers are urgently needed.

TL;DR: Speaking for the United States, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna that human rights are universal and that “the authors cannot let cultural relativism become the last refuge of repression”.

TL;DR: In an era of economic scarcity, how (if at all) should organ transplant procedures and other extreme and expensive treatment he introduced into the health delivery system?

TL;DR: The New Jersey Supreme Court is accused of affirming broad-ranging substantive rights to refuse treatment and then attempting procedurally to restrict their application to very narrow categories of patients, thus hampering the exercise of those rights and failing to promote patient autonomy.

TL;DR: This paper focuses on medical-malpractice litigation, which is intended to create incentives to improve the quality of medical care by making physicians and hospitals accountable and to address errors after the fact.