Resources

CMEL's members have joined various discussions on the issues in medical ethics and law arising from COVID-19, including events organized by colleagues in the field. They have also written on this subject. Click on the links below for more information. Project to explore if the PubliCo platform for the study of COVID-19-related public perception is transferable to selected Asian contexts (including Hong Kong)  Our Dr Calvin Ho will collaborate with Prof D ...

Our Dr Calvin Ho will collaborate with Prof Dr Nikola Biller-Andorno (Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich) and Prof Dr Renate Schubert (Singapore ETH Center) to explore if the PubliCo platform for the study of COVID-19-related public perception is transferable to selected Asian contexts (including Hong Kong) in a public health ethics project funded by ETH Zürich and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

Year 2018: How Medicine is Changing – A Perspective from a Clinical Scientist [Abstract] By Prof Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge Year 2016: Data Protection in an Age of User-Generated Content [Abstract] By Dr David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge Year 2015: The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies: Some Tools for Thinking [Abstract] B ...

"COVID-19 Lockdowns: a Public Mental Health Ethics Perspective" [Open Access]  In Asian Bioethics Review - 18 Aug 2020 By • Assistant Prof Daisy Cheung • Associate Prof Eric C. Ip - English Court of Appeal Decision on Capacity to Decide to Engage in Sexual Relations: A Local Authority v JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 [Our case briefing] "Magistrates must improve approach to mental disab ...

English court decision: ARB v IVF Hammersmith v R [2018] EWCA Civ 2803 Father whose ex forged his signature to use frozen embryos lost claim [Our case briefing]   Hong Kong court decision: FH and MH v WB and others [2019] HKCFI 1748 Hong Kong court granted parental order concerning surrogate children after considering issues such as delay, expenses and possible breach of the surrogacy law  [Our case briefing]   ...

Establishing the International Genetic Discrimination Observatory Journal article in Nature Genetics  - 23 March 2020 By Associate Professor Calvin Ho and others Associate Professor Calvin Ho teamed up with colleagues in the field on an initiative to establish an international genetic discrimination observatory. They published a journal paper on this collaborative initiative. - English court decision: Court recognised duty owed by a hospital trust to t ...