Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.
Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.
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说隐私,就是保密的意思。
DOI:
10.1080/15265161.2011.608243
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2011
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Gligorov,Nada
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作者:
Schwab,AbrahamP;Frank,Lily;Gligorov,Nada
Schonfeld and colleagues (2011) touch on the evernarrowing gap between clinical practice and research as they address issues of privacy (and confidentiality) in the prescreening and review process for research. Although they put forth a number of recommendations about the sharing of information within the medical and research community, their arguments for these recommendations are underdeveloped and conceptually confused. As a result, their recommendations lack adequate support, and, as we argue here, their recommendations are mistaken. Schonfeld and colleagues’ discussion of privacy is obfuscated by a failure to distinguish between descriptive privacy and the value of privacy. A descriptive account of privacy ought to provide the conditions for what constitutes privacy and what indicates a loss of privacy. For example, privacy could be lost as more people gain access to a piece of information or it could be lost when the individual is no longer able to control the information. An account of the value of privacy ought to explain why privacy rights or interests should be respected or protected (Gavison 1980).The conflation of these two aspects of privacy can be seen in the following excerpt:“We grant privacy both to protect patients from the harms associated with others knowing their personal health information (beneficence) and because individuals have a right to determine the use of their person and personal data (respect for persons)”(31). Looking at the second half of this excerpt, Schonfeld and colleagues could mean (1) that an individual’s ability to determine the use of personal data is what defines something as private, or (2) it could be that this control is why privacy is valuable. If (1), the loss of privacy occurs if an individual cannot determine the use of personal data, and this loss is problematic because it may lead the individual to harm. If (2), this loss is problematic both because it may lead the individual to harm and because the individual cannot control the use of personal data.