Protecting and promoting privacy in an uncertain world: Further defences of ignorance and the right not to know

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 185-191

  Laurie, Graeme T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; DUTY TO WARN; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PRIVACY; HUMANS; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0034211244     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: 15718093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718090020523142     Document Type: Review

References (5)

1. Laurie, G.T.; 'In Defence of Ignorance: Genetic Information and the Right Not to Know', 6, European Journal of Health Law, 119, 1999.
2. Thomson, J.; 'Delictual Liability', Second Edition, Butterworths, 1999, chapter 4.
3. For further discussion see Laurie, G.T.; 'Obligations Arising from Genetic Information: Negligence and the Protection of Familial Interests', 11, Child and Family Law Quarterly, 109, 1999.
4. Andrews, L.; 'Torts and the Double Helix: Malpractice Liability for Failure to Warn of Genetic Risks', 29, Houston Law Review, 149, 1992 at 181 opines, with good reason, that the recognition of a duty of disclosure to relatives with whom a physician has no direct professional relationship should, logically, also give rise to a duty for physicians to tell strangers of the health risks that they run.
5. For more detailed discussion see, Laurie, G.T.; 'Challenging Medico-legal Norms: The Role of Autonomy, Confidentiality and Privacy in Protecting Individual and Familial Group Rights in Genetic Information', Journal of Legal Medicine, forthcoming 2000.