Ninety-four percent of U.S. and 63% of Canadian medical chools administered an oath to their graduating students in 1977. This making a 'profession' of the values of the medical profession has undergone a continuous and striking increase since at least 1928. The only factors which may be related...

Most of the medical literature concerned with privacy seems to be based on the implicit assumptions that there is such a thing as right-to-privacy and that privacy is a worthwhile end unto itself. This paper develops a model which should permit a better and more pragmatic understanding of the...