Medical confidentiality and the human right to privacy: a legal approach

Abstract

This paper presents a critical analysis of medical confidentiality. It attempts to understand it in a wide way, from its inception and ethics base that can be found in the Hippocratic Oath. It goes through criminal and disciplinary norms in order to reach the concept of the human right to privacy. The aim is to find the different legal approaches of medical confidentiality and to demonstrate the various aspects it consists of, currently making it as a part of the right to privacy.