Annas 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 works the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights.[1]
Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians,[2] 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.[1] He is a
Hastings Center fellow, a former member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and a member of the National Academies' Committee on Human Rights.[citation needed]
Annas, George J. (1989). The rights of patients: the basic ACLU guide to patient rights (2nd ed.). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
ISBN9780809315277.
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.
ISBN9780195101065.
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.
ISSN0028-4793.
Annas, George J. (1998). Some choice: law, medicine, and the market. New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780195118322.
Book review: Burke, Nora (August 2001). "Health and Human Rights (review)". Human Rights Quarterly. 23 (3): 846–851.
doi:
10.1353/hrq.2001.0029.
S2CID143663668. Selected as second of the top ten humanitarian books of 1999.
Annas, George J. (2005). American bioethics: crossing human rights and health law boundaries. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9781280534454.
Annas, George J. (2010). Worst case bioethics: death, disaster, and public health. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780195391732.