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About the Book In Your Body, Your Health Care, surgeon and policy expert Jeffrey A. Singer provides a vision and a roadmap for creating health care policy that respects the sovereignty of individuals as autonomous moral agents. Book Synopsis At a time when individuals feel increasingly disenfranchised by their health care choices, Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer's groundbreaking new book, Your Body, Your Health Care, offers a compelling vision for a future in which patients regain control over their health decisions and care. The book underscores the importance of personal autonomy, highlighting how the patient-practitioner relationship has been overshadowed in recent decades by paternalistic and overbearing government intervention. As government regulations continue to encroach upon personal health care choices, patients find themselves at the mercy of policymakers dictating their treatment options, from which health professionals they can consult to what substances they can ingest. In this tim