Privacy and Health Care.

Humber, James M. & Robert F. Almeder, eds. Privacy and Health Care. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 2001.

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 scholars debate the conflicting moral and legal demands for maintaining the privacy of health care records in an age of easy computer access to those records and growing pressure by insurance companies, public health agencies, and...