Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices

James Shing Ping CHIU · Albert LEE · Kar-wai TONG

Feb 2023 · City University of HK Press

About this eBook

With the increasing number of complaints and court cases relating to healthcare disputes, healthcare practitioners (HCPs) are now facing more challenges and dilemmas in their daily practices. This book is unique in that most chapters are written jointly by two authors: one with legal training and one with a healthcare background. The balanced view offered thus allows readers to gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented. Although most of the examples and scenarios are specific to medical doctors, the basic principles and ethical considerations as well as the enforcement of laws and regulations are, with some modifications, equally applicable to other HCPs, such as dentists, nurses, midwives, etc. Readers interested in healthcare law and ethics from numerous fields and stages of training, including legal and healthcare practitioners, trainees, postgraduate researchers and undergraduate students, will find this book both informative and practical as an aid to their work and studies.

About the author

Dr James Shing Ping CHIU is an Honorary Assistant Professor of the Medical Faculty at the University of Hong Kong. He was appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor to help launch the first mediation course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. He is also a professional mediator. He co-chairs the Professionalism and Ethics Committee at the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is a medical assessor in Inquiry Panels and a member of the Preliminary Investigation Committee (1) of the Medical Council of Hong Kong.

Professor Albert LEE is Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an International Member of the National Academy of Medicine, United States, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom. He is an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor (New Zealand) and Legal Practitioner (NSW, Australia).

Dr Kar-wai TONG has had multi-disciplinary exposure to healthcare, social care, law and education. He holds a doctoral degree in Juridical Science (Hong Kong) and was called to the Bar (England and Wales). He is an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor (New Zealand) (non-practicing), a Legal Practitioner (NSW, Australia) (non-practicing), a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom), and an Accredited General Mediator (Hong Kong).