All Outputs (2)

Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison (2010)
Journal Article
Maehle, A., & Pranghofer, S. (2010). Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison. Medizinhistorisches Journal, 45(2), 189-221

Professional secrecy of doctors became an issue of considerable medico-legal and political debate in the late ineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both Germany and England, although the legal preconditions for this debate were quite different i... Read More about Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison.

Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2006)
Journal Article
Pranghofer, S., & Maehle, A. (2006). Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 31(3), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1179/030801806x113766

Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation of the therapeutic relationship since the introduction of the Hippocratic oath. Nevertheless, medical confidentiality is a controversial issue, for exa... Read More about Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.