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Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Susan C. Lawrence
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When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challenges—even in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C. Lawrence explores the impact of these new privacy rules, offering insight into what historians should do when they research, write about, and name real people in their work. Lawrence offers a wide-ranging and informative discussion of the many issues involved. She highlights the key points in research ethics that can affect historians, including ... Read more
When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challenges—even in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C. Lawrence explores the impact of these new privacy rules, offering insight into what historians should do when they research, write about, and name real people in their work. Lawrence offers a wide-ranging and informative discussion of the many issues involved. She highlights the key points in research ethics that can affect historians, including ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813574363
SKU
V9780813574363
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About Susan C. Lawrence
SUSAN C. LAWRENCE is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University in Columbus. She is the author of Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Practitioners and Pupils in Eighteenth-Century London.
Reviews for Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
"With sound scholarship, and a clear, accessible writing style, Privacy and the Past serves as a critical analysis, an important piece of advocacy, and a practical field guide."
Scott Podolsky
director, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
“'HIPPA' is a word historians have come to hate, and in this timely and provocative book, ... Read more
Scott Podolsky
director, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
“'HIPPA' is a word historians have come to hate, and in this timely and provocative book, ... Read more