Against Confidentiality?: Privacy, Safety and the Public Good in Professional Communications

Journal of Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-136

  Clark, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

confidentiality; liberal rights; professional ethics; public good

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249152149     PISSN: 14680173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468017306066738     Document Type: Article

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