Should confidentiality in medicine be absolute?

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 19-20

  Balint, John ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DUTY TO WARN; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPOUSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644645741     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160500506464     Document Type: Note

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