Disease control and patient privacy (Was RE: PKC)

[Owen Blacker]

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Ken Brown wrote, at Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:34 PM

[deletia]

> Owen Blacker wrote:
> > 
> > Moving somewhat off-topic, I'm not sure that the level of detail
> > you suggest would *ever* be considered ethical, however.  Take
> > the example of the HIV pandemic and move back to the early/mid
> > '80s -- would you really consider it appropriate to compel the
> > release of details of who's slept with whom?  [deletia]
> > 
> > Am I missing your point?   :o)
>  
> > > The big exception is obviously epidemiology/disease control
> > > where, for interests of public health & self-defence society
> > > (or at any rate the government) might need to demand personal
> > > data, which could be just notification but might be as detailed
> > > as who ate what or who slept with whom. [deletia]

That didn't really answer my question, though.  (Or, rather, if I
did, I'm *still missing the point...)

It still seems to me that you're saying *exactly* what I think
shouldn't happen  :o/


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