El secreto profesional del médico y su protección jurídico-penaluna perspectiva histórica
ISSN: 1698-5583
Argitalpen urtea: 2007
Zenbakia: 6
Orrialdeak: 159-194
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Foro. Revista de ciencias jurídicas y sociales
Laburpena
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...