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Although a legal and moral right to privacy is generally recognized in society, there is no agreement regarding how these rights should apply to medical information. In Privacy and Health Care, leading ethical, medical, legal, and philosophical thinkers debate the conflicting moral and legal demands...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Humber, James M., Almeder, Robert F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2001]
Series:Biomedical ethics reviews ; 2001.
Subjects:
Medical records > Access control.
Privacy, Right of > United States.
Confidentiality.
Medical Records.
Ethics, Medical.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Privacy, Right of.
United States.
Patiëntenzorg.
Privacy.
Medische ethiek.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Is too much privacy bad for your health? : an introduction to the law and ethics of medical privacy / Charity Scott
  • An egalitarian justification of medical privacy / Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald
  • Medical privacy in the information age : ethical issues, policy solutions / Margo P. Goldman
  • Medical information privacy and the conduct of biomedical research / David Korn
  • Privacy and health insurance : can oil and water mix? / Bill Allen and Ray Moseley
  • Data mining, dataveillance, and medical information privacy / Mark E. Meaney
  • Promulgation of "Standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information: final rule" (editor's postscript) / James M. Humber.