Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 105480
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 9780226404820
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo24663060.html
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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D - History of Philosophy
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 165-page, 51,000-word monograph, written from 2013 to 2015, is the first to provide a comparative analysis of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates on medical confidentiality in Britain, USA, and Germany. It is based on the author’s thorough analysis of medical, legal and other primary literature and archival sources. Chapter 2 examines confidentiality in venereal diseases. Chapter 3 discusses issues of secrecy versus disclosure in illegal abortions. Both chapters, again in international comparison, draw upon original sources, leading to significant new insights into similarities and differences in the historical foundations of medical confidentiality with consequences for its present status.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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