Privacy as a matter of taste and right

Social Philosophy and Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 68-90

  Rosenberg, Alexander ^a  

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EID: 0041686407     PISSN: 02650525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0265052500002119     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Robert Gerstein, "Privacy and Self-Incrimination," in Ferdinand David Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 252.
2. Charles Fried, "Privacy," in Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy, 205.
3. James Rachels, "Why Privacy Is Important," in Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy, 292-93.
4. Ibid., 295.
5. Ferdinand Schoeman, "Privacy and Intimate Information," in Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy, 404.
6. Fried, "Privacy," 205.
7. Schoeman, "Privacy and Intimate Information," 404.
8. See Richard B. Lee, The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, 2d ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993); C. W. M. Hart, Arnold R. Pilling, and Jane C. Goodale, The Tiwi of North Australia, 3d ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1988); and Robert Tomlinson, The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia's Desert, 2d ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1991).
9. See Richard B. Lee, The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, 2d ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993); C. W. M. Hart, Arnold R. Pilling, and Jane C. Goodale, The Tiwi of North Australia, 3d ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1988); and Robert Tomlinson, The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia's Desert, 2d ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1991).
10. See Richard B. Lee, The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, 2d ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993); C. W. M. Hart, Arnold R. Pilling, and Jane C. Goodale, The Tiwi of North Australia, 3d ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1988); and Robert Tomlinson, The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia's Desert, 2d ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1991).
11. Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975), 256-78.
12. Brian Skyrms, Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), chap. 4, esp. 76-79.
13. See Alexander Rosenberg, "The Biological Justification of Ethics: A Best-Case Scenario," Social Philosophy and Policy 8, no. 1 (Autumn 1990): 86-101.
14. Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Right to Privacy," Philosophy and Public Affairs 4, no. 4 (Summer 1975): 295-314, reprinted in Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy, 272-89. Subsequent page references are to the reprinting.
15. Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Right to Privacy," Philosophy and Public Affairs 4, no. 4 (Summer 1975): 295-314, reprinted in Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy, 272-89. Subsequent page references are to the reprinting.
16. Ibid., 272.
17. Ibid., 286-87.
18. Ibid., 280.
19. Ibid., 278.
20. Ibid., 282.
21. Ibid., 285-86.
22. Ibid., 287.
23. Ibid., 282.
24. Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion," Philosophy and Public Affairs 1, no. 1 (Fall 1971): 47-66.
25. Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting). Thus, the criticism advanced by William A. Parent, for instance, that Brandeis unwarrantably assimilated privacy to the more general right to be let alone, seems mistaken. Brandeis rightly saw that a privacy protection was the most effective way of ensuring "the most comprehensive of rights." See William A. Parent, "Privacy, Morality, and the Law," Philosophy and Public Affairs 12, no. 4 (Fall 1983): 271.
26. See, for example, Larry Gostin, "Genetic Discrimination: The Use of Genetically Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests by Employers and Insurers," American Journal of Law and Medicine 109, nos. 1 and 2 (1991): 135; and Robert J. Pokorski, "Use of Genetic Information by Private Insurers," in Timothy F. Murphy and Marc A. Lappé, eds., Justice and the Human Genome Project (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), 103.
27. See, for example, Larry Gostin, "Genetic Discrimination: The Use of Genetically Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests by Employers and Insurers," American Journal of Law and Medicine 109, nos. 1 and 2 (1991): 135; and Robert J. Pokorski, "Use of Genetic Information by Private Insurers," in Timothy F. Murphy and Marc A. Lappé, eds., Justice and the Human Genome Project (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), 103.
28. See Skyrms, Evolution of the Social Contract, chap. 1.
29. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), reprinted in Tom L. Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters, eds., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994), 313.
30. For extensive comments and criticism of previous drafts, I owe thanks to Clark Wolfe, Roberta Berry, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Ellen Frankel Paul.