Preferred Shelf Number:
610.285 TAN
First Title value, for Searching:
Our bodies, our data : how companies make billions selling our medical records
First Author value, for Searching:
Tanner, Adam, author.
ISBN:
9780807033340
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
218 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
What the pharmacy knows -- Data bonanza for pharmacies and middlemen -- The covert alliance -- Patient power -- The dossier on your doctor -- Supreme Court battle -- Studying patients over time -- Fighting for patients -- How safe is "anonymized"? -- Korean War over patient data -- The patient's Data Tower of Babel -- Twenty-first-century advances -- Intimate, anonymized, and for sale -- At the bottom of Niagara.
