Newsletters

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

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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

1. New publications
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

1. New publications
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

June 2021 Issue

New WHO Guidance on Artificial Intelligence for Health
When learning is continuous
The constitutional determinants of Planetary Health
Regulation of e-commerce platforms and strict product liability
Perspective from a Forensic Pathologist and expert witness in court
Youth vaccination
Ethical controversies over vaccination incentives
Prospect of returning to normality despite continuing COVID-19 concerns
Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and COVID-19 prevention poses challenges to privacy in Taiwan
Drugs giant reached US$230M settlement agreement for opioids lawsuit in the US

May 2021 Issue

Farewell and welcome
Recent publications
Impact of “vaccine bubble” on unvaccinated employees
Incentivising vaccination and the Hong Kong – Singapore Travel Bubble
Transparency in COVID-19 vaccine indemnity fund applications
Doctors acquitted of charges arising from referral of patients to private clinic
Government unveils proposed scheme to create a new pathway for non-locally trained doctors to practise in Hong Kong
Past Event: Seminar on genomics for health (in English only)
Upcoming Event (also in English only)

April 2021 Issue

Vaccine Bubble & Injury Compensation
(Webinar) Gross Negligence Manslaughter: Should it apply to healthcare practitioners?
Controversy over “vaccine passports” for international travel
New Zealand’s plan to ban sale of tobacco to the new generation
Recent publications
Book launch of Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

March 2021 Issue

Doctor’s conviction of Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Hong Kong and CMEL’s forthcoming webinar on this topic
(Webinar) Gross Negligence Manslaughter: Should it apply to healthcare practitioners?
Watch our Book Talk with the Editor and Contributing Authors
Ombudsman found Hong Kong government’s monitoring mechanism for high-demand vaccines inadequate
Recent publications
Reusing health insurance data of the dead
Canadian-funded project on regulation of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

February 2021 Issue

Doctor and patient acquitted of charges arising from the gifting of a watch in Hong Kong
Runaway COVID-19 patient sentenced to four months in jail in Hong Kong
Controversy over proposed new pathway for non-locally trained doctors to practise in Hong Kong
Online book talk with the editor and contributing authors
Recent publication by CMEL member

Population and Global Health

Mental Health and Capacity

Health Technologies

Publications