- Bib ID:
- 809290
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McLean, Deckle
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995
- x, 140 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0275953351 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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Privacy. We want lots of it for ourselves. We love to invade the privacy of others. We are willing to trade it for benefits of all kinds, including credit, social services, and friendship. Why is this? Where should we draw a line? How should we handle our ambivalence in an era in which privacy often appears to be under official attack? This book explores such questions by rooting into scarce literature to explain why privacy is such a strong need, reviewing a variety of methods for guarding privacy, and concluding that at one time America was a very fortunate place privacy-wise. McLean examines problem areas in which privacy invasions play, or have played, large roles. Rape and sexual offenses are analyzed; so, too, is news reporting that touches private matters and race relations.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Difficulty of Privacy as an Idea
- 2. Background: Through the American Golden Age of Privacy
- 3. Background: Those Left Out of the Golden Age
- 4. Types of Privacy
- 5. The Pernicious Side of Privacy
- 6. What Privacy Provides
- 7. Sexual Assault
- 8. News-Reporting Ethics
- 9. Invasions of Privacy
- 10. Summary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-134) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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