title: Reproductive health and legal duties of medical confidentiality.
abstract: This article discusses the reasons for, and the dimensions of, the obligations the law imposes on health care practitioners to keep confidential the information they obtain about their patients in the course of the therapeutic relationship, with particular reference to issues of reproductive health.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Dickens
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018563:Disease Notification; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*