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J Med Ethics 2003;29:8-9 doi:10.1136/jme.29.1.8
  • Symposium on consent and confidentiality

Confidentiality and its limits: some contributions from Christianity

  1. I R Torrance
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor Iain R Torrance, Faculty of Arts & Divinity, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK;
 i.r.torrance{at}abdn.ac.uk
  • Accepted 8 October 2002

Abstract

The issue is whether Christianity, of its nature, would seek to prevent a justifiable breach of confidentiality or could endorse it, under certain circumstances, as the act which is fundamentally more loving or more truthful. The individualistic nature of Western Christianity is noted. The Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is used to show Christian support for dynamic rather than literal truth telling, and for awareness of the contexts and power relations within which persons stand.

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