Robin L. West
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
204
2003
Medical confidentiality is universally recognised as a value worth protecting. However difficulties arise when confidential medical information becomes relevant in the context of crime prevention and criminal prosecution. Based on an examination of different approaches in medical ethics and a comparison of the relevant law of France Germany England and Wales and the US this book analyses how a balance of the competing interests can best be struck.
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
204
2003
Medical confidentiality is universally recognised as a value worth protecting. However difficulties arise when confidential medical information becomes relevant in the context of crime prevention and criminal prosecution. Based on an examination of different approaches in medical ethics and a comparison of the relevant law of France Germany England and Wales and the US this book analyses how a balance of the competing interests can best be struck.