Privacy, intimacy, and isolation / Julie C. Inness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inness, Julie C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy.

Privacy, Right of.

Privacy, Right of--United States.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 157 pages)

Production:

©1992

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the Supreme Court to the bedroom, privacy is an intensely contested interest in our everyday lives and privacy law. After exploring the privacy arguments of philosophers and constitutional and tort privacy law, the author argues for a new definition of privacy.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Chaotic World of Privacy

29. Common Debates in the Philosophical and Legal Privacy Literature

3. The Threatened Downfall of Privacy: Judith Jarvis Thomson's "The Right to Privacy" and Skepticism about Privacy

4. Beyond Isolation: A Control-Based Account of Privacy

5. Information, Access, or Intimate Decisions about Our Actions? The Content of Privacy

6. Intimacy: The Core of Privacy

7. Personhood or Close Relationships? The Value of Privacy

8. Intimacy-Based Privacy: The Answer to Legal Privacy Debates

9. In Conclusion: Answers and New Questions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-986824-7

0-19-510460-9