The Right to Privacy: Volume 17, Part 2

This volume explores questions about privacy that are relevant to ethical philosophy and political theory.

Ellen Frankel Paul (Edited by), Fred D. Miller, Jr (Edited by), Jeffrey Paul (Edited by)

9780521786218, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 June 2000

340 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

The distinction between the public and private spheres of human life is a critical facet of contemporary moral, political, and legal thought. Much recent scholarship has invoked privacy as an important component of individual autonomy and as something essential to the ability of individuals to lead complete and fulfilling lives. However, the protection of one's privacy can interfere with the ability of others to pursue their own projects and with the capacity of the state to achieve collective goals. Developing an acceptable account of the right to privacy - one that provides satisfactory answers to both theoretical and practical questions - has proven to be a vexing problem. The thirteen essays in this volume examine various aspects of both the right to privacy and the roles that this right plays in moral philosophy, legal theory, and public policy.

1. Deconstructing privacy: and putting it back together again Richard A. Epstein
2. The right to privacy Lloyd L. Weinreb
3. Privacy, control, and talk of rights R. G. Frey
4. Privacy as a matter of taste and right Alexander Rosenberg
5. Egalitarian justice versus the right to privacy Richard J. Arneson
6. Privacy and limited democracy: the moral centrality of persons H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr
7. Legal conventionalism in the US constitutional law of privacy Mark Tushnet
8. Privacy and constitutional theory Scott D. Gerber
9. Privacy and technology David Friedman
10. The priority of privacy for medical information Judith Wagner DeCew
11. Genetics and insurance: accessing and using private information A. M. Capron
12. The right to privacy and the right to die Tom L. Beauchamp
13. Can public figures have private lives? Fredrick Shauer.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]