Title: | Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: An Anglo-German comparison | Authors: | Maehle, Andreas Holger Pranghofer, Sebastian |
Language: | eng | Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | Steiner | Document Type: | Article | Journal / Series / Working Paper (HSU): | Medizinhistorisches Journal | Volume: | 45 | Issue: | 2 | Page Start: | 189 | Page End: | 221 | Publisher Place: | Stuttgart | Abstract: | Professional secrecy of doctors became an issue of considerable medico-legal and political debate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both Germany and England, although the legal preconditions for this debate were quite different in the two countries. While in Germany medical confidentiality was a legal obligation and granted in court, no such statutory recognition of doctors' professional secrecy existed in England. This paper is a comparative analysis of medical secrecy in three key areas divorce trials, venereal disease and abortion - in both countries. Based on sources from the period between c.1870 and 1939, our paper shows how doctors tried to define the scope of professional secrecy as an integral part of their professional honour in relation to important matters of public health. © Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. |
Organization Units (connected with the publication): | Geschichte der frühen Neuzeit u.b.B. der Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte | ISSN: | 0025-8431 |
Appears in Collections: | 6 - Publication references (without fulltext) of your publications before HSU |
Show full item record
CORE Recommender
User Tools
Items in openHSU are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.