Analysis of Medical Confidentiality from the Islamic Ethics Perspective
Confidentiality is one of the old rules of the medical profession. While emphasizing the necessity of confidentiality in religious teachings, disclosure of others secrets to commit sin deserves punishment hereafter known. Today, progress in medical science and invention of new diagnostic and therap...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2015]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 427-434 |
Further subjects: | B
Islam
B Confidentiality B Physicians B Medical Ethics B Patients |
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Summary: | Confidentiality is one of the old rules of the medical profession. While emphasizing the necessity of confidentiality in religious teachings, disclosure of others secrets to commit sin deserves punishment hereafter known. Today, progress in medical science and invention of new diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as the extent of information and disclosure of the secrets of the patients, have provided more than ever. After explaining the concepts and principles of confidentiality in medical ethics, the Islamic-oriented Virtue Ethics, in a comparative review, share the differences in these two sets of ethical review and explain the issue of confidentiality. In professional medical ethics, only the behaviors of health staff are evaluated and moral evaluation of the features cannot be evaluated, but in Islamic ethics, the moral evaluation of the features that are sensual, confidentiality is more stable, without any external supervision will maintain its efficiency. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-013-9795-x |