The People’s Right to Know and State Secrecy

The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know Revisited: Part One

Prompted by developments in human genetics, a recurrent bioethical question concerns a person's 'right to know' and 'right not to know' about genetic information held that is intrinsically related to or linked to them. In this paper, we will revisit the claimed rights in relation to two particular test cases. One concerns the rights of the 500,000 participants in UK Biobank (UKB) whose biosampl...

The patient's right to know.

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The public's right to know.

The public, as taxpayers, has a right to know how public schools are performing. Access to information about public education is increasingly available, thanks to the reporting requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. Building on the reporting provisions in the 1994 reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Congress now mandates disclosure of informa...

Your right-to-know.

The right to know and genetic testing.

This issue of the journal contains three sets of papers clustered around three issues: organs, genetic testing and moral enhancement. Michael Hauskeller has written a guest editorial on the issue of moral enhancement (see page 289) and linked to the Author Meets Critics section of the issue (see pages 338–352). In what follows I will make a few remarks on the issue of genetic testing. Two sets ...