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(SUNY Series in Communication Studies.) By Sandra Petronio. 268 pp. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2002. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7914-5515-7 (cloth); 0-7914-5516-5 (paper).

Privacy is one of the hot new issues in medical practice today. With the federal medical privacy regulations authorized by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) poised to go into effect on April 14, 2003, physicians, other health care professionals, and administrators cannot avoid paying attention to patients' medical privacy. And given that the HIPAA regulations will result in substantial changes in the handling of medical information, this is not a bad time to be thinking about the foundations of privacy in health care and in other areas of our lives.

Physicians need not undertake this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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