February 2020 Issue

Feb 28, 2020

Top stories in this newsletter:
Managing the property and affairs of persons without mental capacity
Test for the diagnosis of death challenged in UK court
Ethical concerns over a lottery-style free drug programme to give away potentially life-saving gene therapy

The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL) develops new ideas and solutions in response to the big ethical, legal and policy questions of medicine and health.
CMEL was founded in 2012 by the LKS Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong as a joint inheritor of their vibrant intellectual traditions dating back to 1887 and 1969 respectively.

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(Co-organised) Helsinki Declaration: Past, present and future

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(Co-organised) Interdisciplinary insights into humanistic and ethical practice of intensive care medicine

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February 2020 Issue