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Title
Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data A further reason in favour of public universal healthcare coverage
Subject
Medicine
Description
This This chapter aims to explore the challenge that big data brings to medical privacy. Section I offers a brief overview of the role of privacy in medical settings. I define define privacy as having one’s personal information and one’s personal sensorial space (what I call autotopos) unaccessed. Section II discusses how the challenge of big data differs differs from other risks to medical privacy. Section III is about what can be done to minimise those risks. I argue that the most effective way of protecting people from suffering suffering suffering unfair medical consequences is by having a public universal healthcare system in which coverage is not influenced influenced influenced by personal data (e.g., genetic predisposition, exercise habits, eating habits, etc.).
Creator
Véliz, Carissa
Source
Book Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law
URI https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48386
Publisher
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publisher website https://global.oup.com/
Date
2019
Contributor
Tatik
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Identifier
ISBN 9780198796558