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Jan-Feb 2024 Issue
1. Massage from New CMEL Co-Director Prof Eric C. Ip
2. New Book: The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong Kong
3. Journal Articles
• “Making a case for appropriate and humane treatment of Hamas belligerents in Israel”
• “Social robots to fend off loneliness?”
• “The duty of care and the right to be cared for: is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?”
• “Moral sensitivity and academic ethical awareness of nursing and medical students: A cross-sectional survey”
• “In-patient suicide after telephone delivery of bad news to a suspected COVID-19 patient: What could be done to improve communication quality?”
• “Life and death behind closed doors”
4. Appointments
5. Upcoming Events
• Medical Ethics and Law Symposium: Should Adolescents be Permitted to Consent to Their Own Medical Care? (Co-organised)
• Workshop on “The Intersection of Loneliness, Bioethics, and Religion” (Co-organised)
6. Video Recording of CMEL Event
7. Deadline Extension: HKU Master of Laws Medical Ethics and Law Specialisation
8. Newspaper Article
9. MEHU Updates
10. Medical Law Updates
Nov-Dec 2023 Issue
1. Master of Laws Medical Ethics and Law Specialisation
2. Journal Articles
• “Using Ethics Committees to Justify Force-Feeding Political Prisoners in Israel”
• “Health Care Workers and War in the Middle East”
• “Setting a Research Agenda on the Bioethics of Loneliness and Public Health”
• “The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and a Vision for Ecogenomics: the Ecological Genome Project”
• “An Unsettling Affair”
3. Upcoming Event
• “Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures” (Seminar)
4. Presentations
5. Media Updates
• Monitoring and Admission of Psychiatric Patients
6. MEHU Updates
Sept-Oct 2023 Issue
1. Events
• WYNG-Hatton Lecture 2023: Smart Regulation for Medical Innovation (4 Dec)
• Regulatory Governance of Emerging Health Technologies (Conference) (4-6 Dec)
• Data Justice in One Digital Health (Conference) (7 & 8 Dec)
2. Journal Articles
• “Implementing the Human Right to Science in the Regulatory Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”
• “Generative AI and the Foregrounding of Epistemic Injustice in Bioethics”
• “An Emergent Planetary Health Law”
• “Patent Philanthropy”
• “A Just Transition for Antimicrobial Resistance: Planning for an Equitable and Sustainable Future with Antimicrobial Resistance”
• “Review of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation”
3. Blog
• “Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency”
4. Medical Law Updates
• “Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients”
• “Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Bill”
• “Plan to Expedite Approval of New Drugs”
Jul-Aug 2023 Issue
1. Articles
• “Are Community Treatment Orders needed to improve community mental healthcare for people with mental illnesses?”
• “Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympathy”
• “Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives”
• “Against loneliness we unite: A solidarity-based account of loneliness”
• “Tackling global health security by building an academic community for One Health action”
• “Public and healthcare provider receptivity toward the retention of dried blood spot cards and their usage for extended genetic testing in Hong Kong”
• “Incentivising civility in clinical environments”
2. Events
• “Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats”
• “An Overview on Gross Negligence Manslaughter from a Clinician’s Perspective and Mediation for Clinical Negligence Claims”
3. Video recordings of “Governance of Medical AI” Conference
• “Regulatory Governance of Medical AI”
• “Medical AI and Data Governance, with Focus on Genomics”
4. Media Updates
• Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients
• Manslaughter
5. MEHU Updates
6. “Medical Ethics and Law” specialisation of the Master of Laws
7. Legal Updates
• Manslaughter Charges against Two Public Hospital Doctors Dropped
• Proposed Changes to the Mechanism for “Conditional Discharge” of Psychiatric Patients
• New Guidance on Data Breach Issued by Privacy Commissioner’s Office
• Memorandum of Understanding on Cross-boundary Data Flow in the Greater Bay Area Signed
May-June 2023 Issue
1. Articles
• “Enforcing Global Health Law in Domestic Legal Systems: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”
• “Concordance of International Regulation of Pediatric Health Research”
• “COVID-19 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel’s Duty to Vaccinate”
• “A Lonely Death During a Pandemic”
2. Upcoming Event
• Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats
3. Video recordings of “Advance Directives Across Asia: Book Launch Events”
• “Potential Challenges for Hong Kong Healthcare Practitioners”
• “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns”
4. Media Updates
• Criminal Liability for Medical Errors
• Introduction of Advance Medical Directives
• Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients
5. MEHU Updates
6. Legal Updates
• Leave to appeal granted in liposuction gross negligence manslaughter case
• Single joint expert in personal injury litigation
• Chinese medicine practitioner convicted of Direct Marketing charges for misusing patient data
• Mainland China’s Measures on the Standard Contract for Cross-border Transfers of Personal Information came into operation
Mar-Apr 2023 Issue
- New CMEL Website
- CMEL Instagram Page
- Promotion and Appointment
- Journal Article: “Harnessing Legal Structures of Virtue for Planetary Health”
- Grant: “A Just Transitions Framework for Equitable and Sustainable Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance”
- Video Recording: Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law 2023 cum Book Launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices (31 Mar)
- Participation in Past Non-CMEL Events
- Symposium on Bioethics in a Post-COVID World (18 May) and other Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) Events
- Medical Law Updates
Jan-Feb 2023 Issue
1. Book
• Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
2. Journal Articles
• “Medical Manslaughter in Hong Kong: What Now?”
• “From the Right to a Healthy Planet to the Planetary Right to Health”
• “The Conundrums of the Reasonable Patient Standard In English Medical Law”
• “How Do COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Affect the Young Working Class in the Philippines?”
• “Eating in Isolation: A Normative Comparison of Force Feeding and Solitary Confinement”
• “Loneliness—a clinical primer”
• “Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympath”
3. Book Chapter
• Relationship with Colleagues
4. Book Review
• Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Towards Health Justice
5. Past Event
• Webinar on Medical Manslaughter: An Overview and Case Studies
6. Upcoming Events
• Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law 2023 cum Book Launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practice
• Discussion on Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
• Addressing Health Inequities Experienced by Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong
7. Media Updates
8. Legal Updates
Nov-Dec 2022 Issue
1. Master’s Degree in the Field of Medical Ethics and Law
2. New CMEL Research Fellows
3. Journal Articles
• “Assessing the Content Quality of Online Parental Resources about Newborn Metabolic Disease Screening: A Content Analysis”
• ‘Reproductive Health Deemed “Non-Essential” During COVID-19: A Neglected Health Vulnerability’
• “Loneliness at the Age of COVID-19”
• “Loneliness is Major Public Health Concern, and Bioethicists Should Rise to the Challenge”
• “A Comparative Study of How the Right of Publicity in the Common Law of the United States Coheres with the Personality Rights in the Civil Act of South Korea”
4. Upcoming Webinars
• Book Talk on “A Theory of Bioethics ”
• Collaborative Governance of Genomic Research
• Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law in 2022
• Book Talk on “Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practice ”
• Book Talk on “The Battle for your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology”
• Use of Unproven Medical Interventions During Public Health Emergencies: Just what is the MEURI “Protocol”?
5. Video Recording
• Advance Directives and Euthanasia
6. Newspaper Article
7. MEHU Updates
8. Medical Law Updates
Sep-Oct 2022 Issue
1. Book: Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law
2. Articles
• “Civil Liabilities of Fertility Fraud: Focusing on the Decision from the Court of Appeals of Indiana in the United States”
• “How Hong Kong Won Its 150-year Struggle Against Malaria”
• “Technological Solutions to Loneliness—Are they enough?”
• “Zoonoses and Animal Culling: The Need for One Health Policy”
3. Upcoming Events
• Preservation of Dignity in the Terminally Ill
• Ethical and Legal Complexities in Genomic Data Sharing in Consortia: Reflections from Asia, Africa, and Europe
• The Bioethics of Loneliness
4. Recording
• “MEDIATION IN HONG KONG”: Focus on Medical and Dental Disputes
5. Media/ Legal Updates
• Manslaughter of Terminally-ill Wife
• Wristbands for Monitoring Emotions
• Invalidating COVID-19 Vaccination Medical Exemption Certificates
Jul-Aug 2022 Issue
1. Publications
• Credentialling—Myths, Challenges and Spirit
• Respecting Values and Perspectives in Biobanking and Genetic Research Governance: Outcomes of a Qualitative Study in Bengaluru, India
2. RGC Grant
• Regulatory Governance of AI in Medicine in the Greater Bay Area
3. Events
• Adult Guardianship Regimes
• Cost Predictions in Health Insurance
• Contact Tracing and Proximity Tracking
• Use of Genomic Data
• AI
• Digital Capabilities
4. Media
• Proposed Ban on Cannabidiol (CBD) Products
5. MBBS Student Essays
• Ethical Considerations of Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers in Hong Kong
• Transgender in Hong Kong: Ethics and Medicolegal Perspectives
6. Health Law Updates
• Medical Council’s Guidance on Telemedicine
• COVID-related Amendments to Employment Ordinance
May-June 2022 Issue
1. Publications
• Technology and the Public Interest
• Emerging Technologies
• COVID-19
• Planetary Health
2. Events
• Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics
• Sharing of Genetic Data for Research
• Digital Capacity and the Proposed International Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
• Public Health Emergency Constitutions in the SARs
3. Health Law Updates
• Model Clauses on Cross-border Transfers of Personal Data
• Applying Medical Evidence from the Study of Aetiology to Causation in Law
• Discrimination Claims by Student with Depression and Anxiety Disorder
• Landmark Case on Abortion Right Overruled
March-April 2022 Issue
1. New publications
2. Upcoming webinars
• CMEL: [Book Talk] “For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics”
• CHM and MEHU: Indigenous Healers and Ayahuasca Tourists in a Capitalist World
• MEHU: From Birth to Death: What Might Person-Centred Care Look Like?
3. Video recordings of recent webinars
• Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law in 2021
• The Governance of the Progress of Gene-Editing Technologies: A Critical Response from a Biomedical, Ethical, and Legal Perspective
• Protecting Policy Holders’ Interests in Health Insurance
• Personal Data Protection Regimes and the Sharing of Human Genetic Data for Research
4. Media interviews
5. Medical law updates
• Appeals in the “DR Beauty” gross negligence manslaughter case
• Challenge to the Vaccine Pass system
• Reflecting change of sex on identity cards
January-February 2022 Issue
2. Events
• Information Session for the Master of Laws in Medical Ethics and Law Programme
• Webinar on Relational Autonomy and Informed Consent
• Webinar on Hong Kong Health Law 2021
• Webinars on Gene-editing, Health Insurance and Data Access
• Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series
• Science, Technology and Medicine Seminar Series
• Medical Humanities “Conversations & Connections” Seminar
3. Knowledge exchange
• Media Interviews
• Consultation for a Fact-check Service
4. Medical law updates
• Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Preliminary Investigation Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong v Hospital Authority
• New Anti-doxxing Law in Force
November-December 2021 Issue
2. Master of Laws in Medical Ethics and Law
3. Events
• Virtual information sessions for the Master of Laws in Medical Ethics and Law programme
• Webinar on Informed Consent in Healthcare
• Webinar on Hong Kong Health Law 2021
• Global Health and Humanities Book Series
• Film screening and discussion event: “Alive In The Mortuary”
4. Knowledge exchange
• Perspective from a forensic pathologist and an advocate for victims of sexual violence
• Proposal of a vaccine pass system for Hong Kong
• Call to engage in consensus building
• Governance of One Health
5. Medical law updates
• New pathway for non-locally trained doctors to practise in Hong Kong
• Ban on alternative smoking products in Hong Kong
• Appeal in the “DR Beauty” gross negligence manslaughter case: HKSAR v Chow Heung Wing, Stephen and Chan Kwun Chung [2021] HKCA 1655
• Doctor jailed for gross negligence manslaughter over death of a liposuction patient: HKSAR v Kwan Hau Chi, Vanessa [2021] HKCFI 2978
• New regulatory regime for private healthcare facilities in Hong Kong
October 2021 Notification
Courts, Proportionality and COVID-19 Lockdowns
Germline Genome Editing: Moratorium, hard law, or an informed adaptive consensus?
The Genetic Discrimination Observatory: confronting novel issues in genetic di
September 2021 Issue
Courts, Proportionality and COVID-19 Lockdowns
Germline Genome Editing: Moratorium, hard law, or an informed adaptive consensus?
The Genetic Discrimination Observatory: confronting novel issues in genetic discrimination
Framework for Involving and Engaging Participants, Patients and Publics in Genomics Research and Health Implementation
Webinars On Mainland China’s Personal Information Protection Law, Paediatric Vaccine Trials and Gross Negligence Manslaughter
New Offence Proposed to Protect Children and Vulnerable People
Expert Opinion on the Cause of Death in a Local Case
Time to Consider Scaling Down on Travel Restrictions?
New Guidance on Artificial Intelligence issued by Hong Kong Privacy Watchdog
Mainland China’s Personal Information Protection Law
Patient’s Court Action for Disability Discrimination
August 2021 Issue
Doctor’s Manslaughter Conviction and Other Medical Law Updates
Drawing on Social Media to Enhance and Personalize Decision-Making and Care at the End of Life
A Call for an Ethics and Governance Action Plan to Harness the Power of Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization in Nephrology
Human Biomedical Research in the Age of ‘Big Data’ Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Minors: The Hong Kong Context
Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Singapore and Malaysia Perspectives on Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children
Webinar on Gross Negligence Manslaughter
Webinar on Paediatric Vaccine Trials
Coroner’s Court in Hong Kong
July 2021 Issue
GRF grant to study best interests
Bringing the Adult Guardianship Regime in Line with the UNCRPD: The Chinese Experience
Genetic Discrimination: Introducing the Asian Perspective to the Debate
Ethical Framework for WHO’s work in the ACT-Accelerator
Vaccination targets and the return to pre-pandemic life
Upcoming webinar and virtual conference/ symposium
Editorial on medical manslaughter