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Medical confidentiality and legal privilege / Jean V. McHale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McHale, Jean V. (Jean Vanessa), 1965-
- Series:
- Social ethics and policy series.
- Social ethics and policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confidential communications--Physicians--Great Britain.
- Confidential communications.
- Medical records--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Medical records.
- AIDS (Disease)--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- McHale asks why a doctor can be forced to disclose a patients' confidences in court when other professional confidences are protected. She goes on to look at whether doctors keep patients' confidences and the need for statutory reform.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Table of cases; SHOULD THE DOCTOR TELL?; COMPARISONS AND INCONSISTENCIES; CONFIDENTIALITY: A PRINCIPLE TO BE PROTECTED?; CONFIDENTIALITY: RHETORIC OR REALITY?; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN PRIVILEGE ENACTMENT; MEDICAL PRIVILEGE, COSTS AND APPLICATION; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-94678-3
- 1-134-94679-1
- 1-280-32219-5
- 0-203-40805-5
- 0-203-32315-7
- 9780203408056
- OCLC:
- 264504316
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