Confidentiality, intimacy and privacy in the context of human rights

Abstract

The importance of confidentiality and intimacy can be found in both Hippocrates and the 2005 Universal
Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights and in other declarations, such as the 1947 Nuremberg
Code or the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, among others.
The objective of this study is to analyze and deepen the notions of confidentiality and privacy as rights
and obligations in the provider-patient relationship and determine their relation with the rules and
principles. The conclusions associate these concepts to the notion of dignity in the Kantian sense as the
ultimate foundation of the person, to be recognized as an end and not as a means.