

Privacy and Health Research. Privacy and Confidentiality in Health Care(13)
An inevitable logical starting-point is the hallowed medical privacy tradition dating back at least as far as Hippocrates—but one doesn't have to be cynical to surmise that even Dr. H's own receptionist may have gossiped about patients' foibles and maladies.... The precept of nondisclosure is an ideal. But it has been, and should still be, centr