IDEA5240M
Module Reading List
Dr Andrew Kirton
a.kirton@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Unit 4.1 - Understanding Privacy
- Unit 4.2 - Understanding Confidentiality
- Unit 4.3 - The Value of Privacy
- Unit 4.4 - A Right to Privacy?
- Unit 4.5 - Whose Privacy, Whose Responsibility?
- Unit 4.6 - The Limits of Confidentiality 1
- Unit 4.7 - The Limits of Confidentiality 2
- Unit 4.8 - Privacy and Confidentiality in Different Professional Domains
Unit 4.1 - Understanding Privacy
Required Reading
Wittgenstein, L. (1958). Extract from Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell: 31-32 (especially the sections numbered 66 and 67). Available as an Online Course Reading
Parent, W.A. (1983). Privacy, Morality and the Law. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12(4): 269-288.
Inness, J. (1992). Privacy, intimacy, and isolation, Chapter 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading.
Further Reading
Glock, H-J. (1996). A Wittgenstein dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell: 120-124. Available as an Online Course Reading
Solove, D.J. (2010). Understanding privacy, Chapter 3. Harvard University Press .
Unit 4.2 - Understanding Confidentiality
Required Reading
Bok, S. (1983). The Limits of Confidentiality. The Hastings Center Report, 13(1): 24-31.
Kennedy, I. (1994). Between Ourselves. Journal of Medical Ethics 20(2): 69-70.
Armstrong, M.B. (1998). Confidentiality, General Issues of. in Chadwick, R. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics Volume 1. Academic Press, California: 579-582. Available as an Online Course Reading
Further Reading
Black, D. (1994). Absolute Confidentiality? In Gillon, R. (ed.) Principles of health care ethics. London: Wiley.
Warwick, S. (1989). A Vote for No Confidence. Journal of medical ethics 15(4): 183-185.
Unit 4.3 - The Value of Privacy
Required Reading
Solove, D. (2009). The Value of Privacy’, Understanding privacy, Chapter 4. London: Harvard University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading.
Rachels, J. (1975). Why Privacy is Important. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 4(4): 323-333.
Unit 4.4 - A Right to Privacy?
Required Reading
Warren, S.D., and Brandeis, L.D. (1890). The Right to Privacy. Harvard Law Review 4(5): 193-220.
Weinreb, L.L. (2000). The Right to Privacy‘, Social Philosophy and Policy, 17(2): 25-44.
Unit 4.5 - Whose Privacy, Whose Responsibility?
Required Reading
Scarre, G. (2010). Privacy and the Dead. Paper presented at ‘The Ethics of Privacy and Confidentiality’ Conference, IDEA CETL, University of Leeds. Available to download. Not for public citation without the author's permission.
Further Reading
Feinberg, J. (1987). The moral limits of the criminal law vol 1 Harm to Others, Chapter 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading
Marx, G.T., and Steeve, V. (2010). From the Beginning: Children as Subjects and Agents of Surveillance. Surveillance & society [electronic resource]., 7(3/4): 192-230. Available online
Robinson, D.J. and O'Neill, D. (2007). Access to Health Care Records After Death: Balancing Confidentiality With Appropriate Disclosure. JAMA 297(6): 634-6.
Rooner, T. (2010). Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child's experience of trust, risk and responsibility? Surveillance & society [electronic resource]., 7(3/4): 344-355. Available online
The Royal Academy of Engineering, ‘Autonomous Systems: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues’, (London: 2009), especially Section 3. Available online
Unit 4.6 - The Limits of Confidentiality 1
Required Reading
Solove, D. (2009). The Value of Privacy. In Understanding privacy. London: Harvard University Press. pp. 87-88 only. Available as an Online Course Reading.
Further Reading
Lawlor, R. (2004). Hooker's Ideal Code and the Sacrifice Problem. Social Theory and Practice 30(4): 583-587.
Williams, B. (1993). Utilitarianism. In Morality: An Introduction to Ethics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Unit 4.7 - The Limits of Confidentiality 2
Required Reading
‘States eye ban on public release of 911 calls’, MSNBC, 2/23/2010.
‘Emergency services reveal silliest 999 calls’, The Telegraph, 31/01/08.
Daniel Solove, ‘Is Disclosing a 911 Call to the Public a Privacy Violation?’, Concurring Opinions, 10/03/10.
‘Drug testing at work’, Thesite.org.
‘Why street photography is facing a moment of truth’
‘Eye on the world: David Peat's street photography’ (video).
Unit 4.8 - Privacy and Confidentiality in Different Professional Domains
Required Reading
Bennion, F.A.R. (1969). Professional ethics : the consultant professions and their code, Chapter 5. London: C. Knight. Available as an Online Course Reading.
Keeble, R. (2009). Ethics for journalists, Chapter 5. London: Routledge. Available as an Online Course Reading.
This list was last updated on 26/11/2021