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Coercive Consent and Digital Health Information

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Most of us who access healthcare in the USA expect to receive a pile of forms when we check in at the front desks of our doctors’ offices. As patients, we often do not give a second thought to the type of contractual and transactional relationship with our doctors, nurses, with the entire healthcare industry that we are consenting to when we seek out healthcare. Do we enter into an equitable relationship or is it, by nature of the institution, always asymmetrical? We walk into the clinic and we know the drill; we are very familiar with the rituals in which we are required to participate. This humble detective is no different.

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Ebeling, M.F.E. (2016). Coercive Consent and Digital Health Information. In: Healthcare and Big Data. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50221-6_4

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