PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Francis, Huw W S
TI  - Of gossips, eavesdroppers, and peeping toms
AID  - 10.1136/jme.8.3.134
DP  - 1982 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 134--143
VI  - 8
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/8/3/134.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/8/3/134.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1982 Sep 01; 8
AB  - 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.