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Handling personal and often sensitive information is central to
daily practice in social and health services. However, the
increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working
required for effective, joined-up services presents new challenges
and dilemmas in preserving citizens' rights to privacy. This book
examines key philosophical, ethical, legal and professional
practice issues in the area of privacy and confidentiality and
explores their implications for policy and practice. Offering a
range of analytical frameworks, the contributors, from different
disciplines including law, philosophy, anthropology and the
personal service professions, provide a synoptic multi-disciplinary
view of this increasingly challenging area where technological
development, civil liberties, surveillance, health and welfare
become inexorably intertwined.The book will be of key interest to a
wide range of professionals in the personal services, academics in
related areas, students of the professions and their contributory
disciplines.
Handling personal and often sensitive information is central to
daily practice in social and health services. However, the
increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working
required for effective, joined-up services presents new challenges
and dilemmas in preserving citizens' rights to privacy. This book
examines key philosophical, ethical and legal issues in the area of
privacy and confidentiality and explores their implications for
policy and practice. ,Offering a range of analytical frameworks the
book focuses on different practice areas, including health and
social care, children's services and criminal justice. The
contributors from disciplines including law, philosophy,
anthropology and the personal service professions bring their
direct personal experience of working to create new systems and
practices in a turbulent policy environment. The book provides a
synoptic multi-disciplinary view of this increasingly challenging
area where technological development, civil liberties,
surveillance, health and welfare become inexorably intertwined. The
book will be of key interest to professionals, managers, policy
makers and academics in the health and personal social services.
Students of social work, probation, medicine, nursing and
professions allied to medicine will find a common multidisciplinary
framework for their respective professional concerns to protect the
interests and promote the wellbeing of clients, their families and
the wider community.
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