Written by doctors and lawyers,the book is essential reading for practitioners in both professions who are concerned with the medico-legal aspects of beginning and end of life issues,as well as advances in medical research and technology and patients' rights and autonomy in law. The first book on medical law and ethics in Hong Kong; Provides a clear analysis of the inter-relationship between medical ethics and the law, together with a valuable collection of new studies and materials from disparate sources in this important discipline of law; Provides a detailed exposition of the legal and ethical parameters of the ongoing debates on reproductive medicine, euthanasia, medical negligence and patients’ rights and autonomy; Represents the clearest available accounts of the genesis of medical law and ethics in Hong Kong. This illuminating text,written in a style of marked lucidity, will be of great benefit to practitioners, healthcare professionals, doctors, lawyers, students and teachers of medical law. In the burgeoning field of medico-legalstudies, the book represents the clearest available accounts of the genesis of medical law and ethics in Hong Kong