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(Biomedical Ethics Reviews.) Edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder. 190 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana, 2001. $44.50. ISBN 0-89603-878-5.

Medical privacy is a core ethical principle of the health professions, and it is considered to be essential by much of the public. Yet medical privacy has proved to be an elusive concept that has engendered disagreement over its definition, dispute over its importance relative to other interests, and endless political debate over the appropriate way to protect it.

Contemporary concern about medical privacy may be attributed to various sources. First, the ability of computers to compile and transmit vast amounts of information instantly has aroused concern about safeguarding the confidentiality of computerized records of all sorts, including medical records. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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