title: Confidentiality for whom?
abstract: Confidentiality has been argued to be a cornerstone both of medical and social research encounters, particularly because of the protection it offers for patients and informants. In practice the idea of confidentiality is fractured. Professional interests in the organisation of medical work, and concerns for the collective interest amongst social researchers may lead to individual confidentiality being undermined. In addition discrepancies in the ethical positions and practices of social researchers and those in biomedicine may produce further problems for the maintenance of confidentiality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Sciences, Brunel, University of West London, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D035841:Behavioral Research; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D030881:Disclosure; D004739:England; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D026706:Paternalism; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards; D035842:Research Subjects; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012942:Social Sciences