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Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests? Challenges to Medical Confidentiality in Imperial Germany (2003)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2003). Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests? Challenges to Medical Confidentiality in Imperial Germany. Social History of Medicine, 16(3), 383-401. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/16.3.383

With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, and other health professions throughout Imperial Germany. However, based on an analysis of the relevant legal cases up to the First World War, this arti... Read More about Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests? Challenges to Medical Confidentiality in Imperial Germany.