George Annas

George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics. He is considered by Boston University to be a widely published national expert in the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights.

Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional NGO that states it is dedicated to promoting human rights and health. He teaches health law and human rights courses in the Boston University School of Public Health, the Boston University School of Law, and the Boston University School of Medicine. He is a Hastings Center fellow, a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and a member of the National Academies' Committee on Human Rights.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Annas, George J.; Grodin, Michael A. (1992). The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: human rights in human experimentation. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195101065.

Book review: Yarmolinsky, Adam (13 May 1993). "Book Review The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation Edited by George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin. 371 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $29.95. 0-19-507042-9". New England Journal of Medicine. 328 (19): 1429–1430. doi:10.1056/NEJM199305133281922. ISSN 0028-4793. Retrieved 29 June 2013.

• Annas, George J.; Grodin, Michael A.; Mann, Jonathan M.; Gruskin, Sofia (1999). Health and human rights: a reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415921022.

Book review: Burke, Nora (August 2001). "Health and Human Rights (review)". Human Rights Quarterly. 23 (3): 846–851. doi:10.1353/hrq.2001.0029. Selected as second of the top ten humanitarian books of 1999.

Journal articles

• Annas, George J. (Summer 1991). "Determining the fate of gestational mothers". Women's Health Issues. 1 (3). Elsevier: 158–160. doi:10.1016/S1049-3867(05)80124-0. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Annas, George J.; Grodin, Michael A. (27 November 1996). "Legacies of Nuremberg: medical ethics and human rights". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 276 (20). American Medical Association: 1682–1683. doi:10.1001/jama.1996.03540200068035. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

See also

• Bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Eugenics Wars argument
• Genism

External links

• George Annas and Wendy Mariner on The Future of Health Law, on BUniverse, Boston University's video archive.
• Interview: Engineering Life from Wonderlance, a monthly digital magazine