Bioethics for clinicians: 8. Confidentiality.

Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.

Current Bioethics Trends in Canada

Canadian bioethicists have long enjoyed access to bioethics programs in the United States and have collaborated with U.S. organizations working in this field. Nevertheless, special features of Canada’s multicultural society and public health services are increasingly seen as raising distinctive issues requiring special attention. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of current ...

Bioethics for clinicians: 25. Teaching bioethics in the clinical setting.

Bioethics is now taught in every Canadian medical school. Canada needs a cadre of teachers who can help clinicians learn bioethics. Our purpose is to encourage clinician teachers to accept this important responsibility and to provide practical advice about teaching bioethics to clinicians as an integral part of good clinical medicine. We use 5 questions to focus the discussion: Why should I tea...

Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescent Clients: A Survey of Australian Psychologists about the Considerations that Influence Their Decisions

Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescent Clients: A Survey of Australian Psychologists about the Considerations that Influence Their Decisions Rony E. Duncan a b c , Ben J. Williams c & Ann Knowles c a Centre for Adolescent Health, Children's Bioethics Centre, Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Austr...

Clinical genetics and the problem with unqualified confidentiality.

In his article “A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality,” Kipnis provides a persuasive argument as to why maintaining unqualified confidentiality is the most effective way of preventing harm to third parties in the health-care setting (Kipnis 2006). However, difficulties emerge when it is applied to the field of clinical genetics. The familial context of clinical genetics means that ro...