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Author McHale, Jean V. (Jean Vanessa), 1965-

Title Medical confidentiality and legal privilege / Jean V. McHale
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 160 pages)
Series Social ethics and policy series
Social ethics and policy series.
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
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
Analysis Medical records Disclosure Law
Great Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-155) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Confidential communications -- Physicians -- Great Britain
Medical records -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Confidentiality -- legislation & jurisprudence
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- legislation & jurisprudence
Medical Records -- legislation & jurisprudence
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation
Confidential communications -- Physicians
Medical records -- Law and legislation
Médecine -- Secret professionnel -- Grande-Bretagne.
Dossiers médicaux -- Accès -- Contrôle.
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203323157
9780203323151
0415046955
9780415046954
0203408055
9780203408056