TY - JOUR T1 - Of gossips, eavesdroppers, and peeping toms JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 134 LP - 143 DO - 10.1136/jme.8.3.134 VL - 8 IS - 3 AU - Huw W S Francis Y1 - 1982/09/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/8/3/134.abstract N2 - British accounts of medical ethics concentrate on confidentiality to the exclusion of wider questions of privacy. This paper argues for consideration of privacy within medical ethics, and illustrates through the television series `Hospital', what may go awry when this wider concept is forgotten. ER -