AIDS: Professional Secrecy

Professional secrecy: a vincible right.

Secrecy, stigma and HIV/AIDS: An introduction.

This paper situates the articles selected for this special issue of AJAR within the context of the Sex and Secrecy conference, from which they emerged and within the discourse of secrecy. Secrecy and silence which have characterised the HIV/AIDS epidemic in many societies, have been the focus of limited academic attention. Yet the power of the secret is evident in multiple spheres. This introdu...

Professional secrecy as a stressor among norwegian physicians

The aim of the present study is to assess how the necessary practice of professional secrecy may be a stressor for doctors, and to what extent MM (mortality and morbidity)-meetings and having a doctor as a spouse or partner, may serve as outlets for emotional charge. A postal survey was sent to a stratified sample of 780 doctors working in and outside hospitals in a health region in Norway (1.1...

Secrecy logic: S -secrecy structures

Let S = 〈L, S〉 be a deductive system. An S -secrecy logic is a quadruple K = 〈FmL(V ),K,B, S〉 , where FmL(V ) is the algebra of L-formulas, K,B are S -theories, with B ⊆ K and S ⊆ K such that S ∩ B = ∅ . K corresponds to information deducible from a knowledge base, B to information deducible from the publicly accessible (or browsable) part of the knowledge base and S is a secret set, a set of s...

Cochlear implants and hearing aids: some personal and professional reflections.

The ear, nose, and throat physician who diagnosed my hearing loss many years ago called it a “progressive hearing loss” and told me that I would eventually be going deaf. And then he went on to his next patient. It took me a long time to realize that what he meant by “deaf” was not a condition that I would ever fully experience. He apparently used the term as a medical diagnostic label and not ...