El secreto profesional del médico y su protección jurídico-penaluna perspectiva histórica
ISSN: 1698-5583
Year of publication: 2007
Issue: 6
Pages: 159-194
Type: Article
More publications in: Foro. Revista de ciencias jurídicas y sociales
Abstract
The present work studies the historical evolution of medical secrecy and tangentially of professional secrecy in general from a criminal law perspective. Specifically, this study analyses the evolution of this rule from its origin as an ethical duty in ancient Greece until its transformation into a criminally enforceable duty upon its inclusion in the Spanish Criminal Code of 1822. This study also highlights the fact that not all Spanish criminal codes following the 1822 Code sanctioned breaches of medical secrecy, inexplicably leaving them outside the reach of criminal law for many years until their inclusion in the Criminal Code currently...