1st Edition

Confidentiality, Privacy, and Data Protection in Biomedicine International Concepts and Issues

Edited By Edward S. Dove Copyright 2025
344 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions—including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia—navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment. While the collection of personal health... Read more

 

Introduction

1.      Is privacy egregiously wrong? Reflections on a concept that can make or break constitutions

2.      Public interest and trustworthiness: connecting the concepts through reasonable justification for (non)interference with medical confidentiality

3.      Big Data research: can confidentiality and fiduciary duties fill in the gaps in privacy and data protection?

4.      Managing access to health data for research and innovation in the EU: is a better regulatory approach possible?

5.      Secondary Uses of Patients’ Data in the European Health Data Space: A UK-German Comparison

6.      The evolution of privacy governance in healthcare in post-apartheid South Africa

7.      Is health privacy worth the cost?

8.      Misuse of private information and the common law right of privacy: a new frontier in biomedicine?

9.      Hackers and hacked: how does the law respond to and remedy health data breaches in the Asia-Pacific?

10.   Challenges and opportunities for data trusts for health research

11.   Human organoids: things or data?

12.   Balancing the right to data protection with managing the care of HIV patients: experiences from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa

Biography

Edward S. Dove is a Professor of Law at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland.