Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data : A further reason in favour of public universal healthcare coverage

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) una...

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Main Author: Véliz, Carissa (auth)
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
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