Clinical Ethics, Humanities and Law - Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

Journal Article

2024

Exploration of clinical and ethical issues in an expanded newborn metabolic screening programme: A qualitative interview study of healthcare professionals in Hong Kong

co-authored by Olivia M. Y. Ngan
in Hong Kong Medical Journal

The research of our scholars on the law concerning clinical care covers a wide range of issues, such as issues concerning medical negligence, medical decision-making on behalf of minors, advance medical directives and medical research fraud.

Clinical ethics and humanities is one of our other research areas. It is an interdisciplinary field that combines the study of medical ethics and the humanities (such as anthropology, philosophy, history, and art) to address ethical and humanistic issues in healthcare. It seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of complex ethical dilemmas that may arise in clinical settings, and to develop practical solutions that balance the needs and values of patients, families, and healthcare providers. Ongoing emerging disease threats and the development of novel technologies to tackle contemporary health issues may raise awareness of, or concerns about ethical implications and sociocultural challenges of healthcare delivery.

Our scholars, with a background in law, medicine, science, philosophy, history, anthropology, and bioethics actively engage with clinical ethics, humanities and law issues through their research and teaching commitments.

Journal Article

2025

The role of divine grace in Kant’s rational religion

by Carl Hildebrand
in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Journal Article

2025

Clinical errors and mistakes: civil or criminal liability?

co-authored by Albert Lee & Calvin W. L. Ho
in Hong Kong Medical Journal

Journal Article

2025

Unit 731 and history-informed professional identity formation

co-authored by Zohar Lederman
in The Lancet

Journal Article

2024

Loneliness as lack of solidarity: The case of Palestinians standing alone

co-authored by Zohar Lederman
in Bioethics

Journal Article

2024

Holocaust studies and structural competency

co-authored by Zohar Lederman
in The Lancet

Journal Article

2024

Disabilities and professional training: A tripartite consensus statement by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and the two medical schools in Hong Kong

by Gilberto Leung
in Hong Kong Medical Journal

Research Grant

2024

Medical misconduct reduction and prevention: A focus mapping analysis on patient safety, risk factors, and temporal trends

Principal Investigator: Olivia Ngan
Grant from the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme

Research Grant

2024

Altered spaces: Investigating materialities of care and epistemic concerns of Australian psychedelic medicine settings

Principal Investigator: Alex Gearin
Grant from the Research Grants Council (General Research Fund)

Journal Article

2024

War Crimes, Sexual assault and medical confidentiality in Israel

by Zohar Lederman
in Journal of Medical Ethics

Journal Article

2024

Disclosure of true medical information: The case of Bangladesh

by Md Sanwar Siraj
in BMC Medical Ethics

Journal Article

2024

Family-oriented living organ donation in Bangladesh: A bioethical defence

by Md Sanwar Siraj
in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Journal Article

2024

The duty of care and the right to be cared for: Is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?

co-authored by Zohar Lederman
in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Journal Article

2024

Informed consent: Clarifying the post-Montgomery duty of care to discuss ‘reasonable alternative treatment’

by Gilberto Leung
in Hong Kong Medical Journal

Journal Article

2023

In-patient suicide after telephone delivery of bad news to a suspected COVID-19 patient: What could be done to improve communication quality?

co-authored by Olivia Ngan
in Health Care Science

Journal Article

2023

Health care workers and war in the middle east

by Zohar Lederman
in JAMA

Journal Article

2023

Terminating abortion demonstrations

co-authored by Edward Lui
in Medical Law Review

Journal Article

2023

Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives

by Alex Gearin
in Social Science & Medicine

Book

2023

Advance directives across Asia: A comparative sociolegal analysis

Lead co-editor: Daisy Cheung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Journal Article

2023

Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of kantian sympathy

by Carl Hildebrand
in British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Journal Article

2022

Ethical Analysis of Appropriate Incentive Measures Promoting Organ Donation in Bangladesh

by Md Sanwar Siraj
in Asian Bioethics Review

Journal Article

2023

The conundrums of the reasonable patient standard in English medical law

co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in BMC Medical Ethics

Journal Article

2022

Reproductive health deemed “non-essential” during COVID-19: A neglected health vulnerability

by Olivia M. Y. Ngan
in Asia Pac J Public Health

Journal Article

2022

Loneliness at the age of COVID-19

by Zohar Lederman
in Journal of Medical Ethics

Book Chapter

2021

Patient-centric turn in medical liability in Singapore

by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Medical Liability in Asia and Australasia (Springer)

Journal Article

2021

Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution

by Alex Gearin
in International Journal of Cultural Studies

Book Chapter

2020

Medical decision-making on behalf of minors: The Hong Kong context

by Daisy Cheung
in Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing)

Book Chapter

2020

Parental rights, best interests and significant harms: Singapore and Malaysia perspectives on medical decision-making on behalf of children

by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing)

Journal Article

2019

Criminalizing medical research fraud: Towards an appropriate legal framework and policy response

by Gilberto K. K. Leung
in Medical Law International

Journal Article

2018

Anarchitectures of health: Futures for the biomedical drone

co-authored by Ria Sinha
in Global Public Health

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