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

Boston University School of Public Health

Boston University School of Public Health is Boston University's graduate School of Public Health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's Medical Campus in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Dean is Robert Meenan...

, School of Medicine

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, and School of Law

Boston University School of Law

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. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College

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, a J.D. from Harvard Law School

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 and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health

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. He is considered by Boston University

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 to be a widely published national expert in the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights, whose books include: Worst Case Bioethics, The Rights of Patients, Judging Medicine, Some Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market, and American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries.

Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional NGO dedicated to promoting human rights and health. He teaches health law and human rights courses in the Boston University School of Public Health

Boston University School of Public Health

Boston University School of Public Health is Boston University's graduate School of Public Health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's Medical Campus in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Dean is Robert Meenan...

, the Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law is the law school affiliated with Boston University, and is ranked #22 among American law schools by US News and World Report magazine. It is the second-oldest law school in Massachusetts and one of the first law schools in the country to admit students regardless...

, and the Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1848, the medical school holds the unique distinction as the first institution in the world to formally educate female physicians. Originally known as the New England Female Medical College, it was...

. He is a Hastings Center

Hastings Center

The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment...

 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.

See also

• Bioethics
  Bioethics
  Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy....
  
  
• Biopolitics
  Biopolitics
  The term "biopolitics" or "biopolitical" can refer to several different yet often compatible concepts.-Definitions:# In the work of Michel Foucault, the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" .# In the works of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, anti-capitalist insurrection...
  
  
• 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