Editorial-AJOB, Privacy
Editorial: Translating Commercial Health Data Privacy Ethics into Change
Note: This editorial accompanies The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 11 (2023). Hundreds of articles hav...
Subject: Privacy
Clinical Ethics, Privacy
Continued Erosion of Patient Trust in Electronic Health Records
As more nations introduce electronic health records (EHRs), many patients are wary of revealing personal health informat...
Clinical Ethics, Politics, Privacy
Privacy, Honesty, and the Public’s Need to Know in Presidential Medicine
by Mack Lipkin MD & Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. The President’s doctor recently chose to triangulate himself in an ethical/...
Duties When an Anonymous Student Health Survey Finds a Hot Spot of Suicidality
Abstract Public health agencies regularly survey randomly selected anonymous students to track drug use, sexual activiti...
Publish date:Justice, Privacy, Public Health, Vulnerable Populations
Reassessing the Ethics of Molecular HIV Surveillance in the Era of Cluster Detection and Response: Toward HIV Data Justice
Abstract In the United States, clinical HIV data reported to surveillance systems operated by jurisdictional departments...
Publish date:Informed Consent, Justice, Privacy, Public Health
We Are People, Not Clusters!
Abstract As advocates and scholars, including people living with HIV, we have been engaged in a critical debate over mol...
Publish date:Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Media, Politics, Privacy, Social Media
#MedBikini: A Lesson in Irony and the Pitfalls of Policing Professionalism
by Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, FRCPC The Journal of Vascular Surgery (and Irony) published a rather odd...
Cultural, Decision making, Health Regulation & Law, HIV/AIDS, Privacy, Public Health
Who Has A Right to Know A Person is COVID Positive: Lessons from HIV
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a lawsuit this week, a judge in Cook County (IL) ruled against a suburban that wanted to forc...
The Value and Ethics of Using Technology to Contain the COVID-19 Epidemic
by Alex Dubov, Ph.D. and Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D. Introduction As the world grapples with COVID-19, experts are calling for...
Would You Give Up Your Cell Phone Location Data to Fight COVID?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. One of the most powerful tools that epidemiologists have for containing an outbreak is contact t...
The Consumer Electronic Show and The Ethics of Consumer Digital Health
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This week Las Vegas hosted the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where tech companies can sho...
Is Public Health Outreach All Sunnyside Up or Is It A Shell Game?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, I received an automated phone call from my local grocery chain saying that I had purc...