George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Chairman of Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. He holds a degree in law from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a widely published national expert in the field of law and medicine, whose books include The Rights of Patients and Some Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market. (For the unrelated similarly-named Jesuit-associated university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard School of Public Health is Harvard Universitys school of public health. ... Law (from the Old Norse lagu) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments of/for those who do... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ...

Professor Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers & Physicians and the Patients Rights Project. For five years, he was the director of the Boston University School of Law’s Center for Law and Health Sciences. Professor Annas teaches bioethics. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Boston University School of Law. ... Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. ...

See also

• Bioconservatism