Privacy and the Past : : Research, Law, Archives, Ethics / / Susan C. Lawrence.

• VerfasserIn: Lawrence, Susan C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.) :; 2 tables

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. La...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Historians, the County, and the Dead
• Chapter 2. Research, Privacy, and Federal Regulations
• Chapter 3. Historians, the First Amendment, and Invasion of Privacy
• Chapter 4. Archivists at the Gates
• Chapter 5. Managing Privacy: Historians at Work
• Chapter 6. Conclusion: Resistance
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index