RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Of gossips, eavesdroppers, and peeping toms
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 134
OP 143
DO 10.1136/jme.8.3.134
VO 8
IS 3
A1 Huw W S Francis
YR 1982
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/8/3/134.abstract
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.