Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas (eds.), Privacy and Medical Confidentiality in Healthcare: A Comparative Analysis (Chinese edition) (transl. Tang Linyao and Cheng Shang), Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2024.

This seminal book delivers an international examination of the duty of medical confidentiality and a patient’s right to privacy in the face of contemporary threats such as cyber-security, patient autonomy, and the greater reliance on telemedicine post Covid-19 pandemic. Divided into twelve chapters, it covers the following topics: Privacy and health in Belgium, Privacy and health in Canada, Privacy and health in Germany, Japanese law of privacy and health, Privacy and health in the Nordic countries, Data protection, privacy, and confidentiality in Qatar's health system, Privacy, medical confidentiality, and health in Tanzania, Patient confidentiality rules in South Africa: a legal and ethical perspective, Patient privacy and health information confidentiality in the United States of America, The obligation of medical confidence in the UK, and Comparative conclusions: towards a global vision of privacy and medical confidentiality?