Privacy, confidentiality, and health research / William W. Lowrance.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

188 pages ; cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Data, biospecimens, and research; 3. Privacy, confidentiality, safeguards; 4. Broad privacy and the data protection regimes; 5. Health care, public health, and research regimes; 6. Consent; 7. Identifiability and person-specific data; 8. Genetics and genomics; 9. Safeguards and responsibilities; 10. Data sharing, access, and transfer; 11. Ways forward.

Includes bibliographical references and index.