Newsletters

1. Message from CMEL Co-Director Prof Eric C. Ip

2. Special Issue of the Asian Bioethics Review on the “Governance of Medical AI”

3. Journal Articles

4. Book Chapter

5. Book

6. New Research Grant

7. New CMEL Members

8. Service Appointment

9. Upcoming Conference: Criminalising Surrogacy

10. Video Recording: International Humanitarian Law and The Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza

11. Past Presentations by CMEL Members

12. Knowledge Exchange Award won by Prof Daisy Cheung and Prof Rebecca Lee: Legislating and Promoting Advance Medical Directives in Hong Kong

13. Newspaper Articles

14. MEHU Updates

15. Medical Law Update

1. Message from CMEL Co-Director Prof Eric C. Ip

2. Letter to the Editor
• “Existing and Emerging Capabilities in the Governance of Medical AI”

3. Journal Articles
• “How the EU AI Act Seeks to Establish an Epistemic Environment of Trust”
• “Championing Planetary Health: Cancer Nurses Paving the Path to a Vibrant Future”
• “Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy Recommendations”
•  Reply to “Colonial and Neocolonial Barriers to Companion Digital Humans in Africa”
• “Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: Some Food of Thought on Clinical Liability”

4. New CMEL Members

5. New Appointment of CMEL Member

6. Video Recording: The Ethics and Regulation of Challenge Trials: The Ethics of Exposing People to Serious Diseases for Research Purposes

7. Past Presentations by CMEL Members

8. Media Updates
• “Combating Loneliness in Pandemics: A Conversation with Dr Zohar Lederman” (Voices in Bioethics Podcast at columbia.edu)
• “Is Egg Freezing for Women a Good Solution to the Aging Population?”

9. MEHU Updates

10. Medical Law Updates

1. Message from CMEL Co-Director Prof Eric C. Ip

2. Journal Articles
• “Informed Consent: Clarifying the Post-Montgomery Duty of Care to Discuss ‘Reasonable Alternative Treatment'”
• “Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life”
• “Exploration of Clinical and Ethical Issues in an Expanded Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme: A Qualitative Interview Study of Healthcare Professionals in Hong Kong”
• “Towards an Actionable One Health Approach”

3. Book Chapter
• “Hong Kong: Medical Student Wellbeing in Hong Kong”

4. WYNG-Hatton Lectures 2024 (Artificial Intelligence Policy as a Contact Sport: Why Bioethics and Governance Need to Up Their Game in the Health Sector (Video))

5. WYNG-Hatton Lectures 2023 (Smart Regulation for Medical Innovation (Video)) Cited in Report

6. Other Past CMEL Events (Videos)
• Book Talk – The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong Kong (Routledge, 2024)
• Reproductive Autonomy: The Impact of the Pandemic and Recent Jurisprudence
• Medical Ethics and Law Symposium: Should Adolescents be Permitted to Consent to Their Own Medical Care?
• Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures
• Solutions to the Global Health Crisis
• Data Justice in One Digital Health
• Regulatory Governance of Genomics & Reproductive Technologies

7. Upcoming Events

8. MEHU Updates

9. Medical Law Updates

1. Message from New CMEL Co-Director Prof Eric C. Ip

2. New Book: The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong Kong

3. Journal Articles
• “Making a case for appropriate and humane treatment of Hamas belligerents in Israel”
• “Social robots to fend off loneliness?”
• “The duty of care and the right to be cared for: is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?”
• “Moral sensitivity and academic ethical awareness of nursing and medical students: A cross-sectional survey”
• “In-patient suicide after telephone delivery of bad news to a suspected COVID-19 patient: What could be done to improve communication quality?”
• “Life and death behind closed doors”

4. Appointments

5. Upcoming Events
• Medical Ethics and Law Symposium: Should Adolescents be Permitted to Consent to Their Own Medical Care? (Co-organised)
• Workshop on “The Intersection of Loneliness, Bioethics, and Religion” (Co-organised)

6. Video Recording of CMEL Event

7. Deadline Extension: HKU Master of Laws Medical Ethics and Law Specialisation

8. Newspaper Article

9. MEHU Updates

10. Medical Law Updates

1. Master of Laws Medical Ethics and Law Specialisation

2. Journal Articles
• “Using Ethics Committees to Justify Force-Feeding Political Prisoners in Israel”
• “Health Care Workers and War in the Middle East”
• “Setting a Research Agenda on the Bioethics of Loneliness and Public Health”
• “The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and a Vision for Ecogenomics: the Ecological Genome Project”
• “An Unsettling Affair”

3. Upcoming Event
• “Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures” (Seminar)

4. Presentations

5. Media Updates
• Monitoring and Admission of Psychiatric Patients

6. MEHU Updates

1. Events
• WYNG-Hatton Lecture 2023: Smart Regulation for Medical Innovation (4 Dec)
• Regulatory Governance of Emerging Health Technologies (Conference) (4-6 Dec)
• Data Justice in One Digital Health (Conference) (7 & 8 Dec)

2. Journal Articles
• “Implementing the Human Right to Science in the Regulatory Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”
• “Generative AI and the Foregrounding of Epistemic Injustice in Bioethics”
• “An Emergent Planetary Health Law”
• “Patent Philanthropy”
• “A Just Transition for Antimicrobial Resistance: Planning for an Equitable and Sustainable Future with Antimicrobial Resistance”
• “Review of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation”

3. Blog
• “Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency”

4. Medical Law Updates
• “Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients”
• “Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Bill”
• “Plan to Expedite Approval of New Drugs”

1. Articles
• “Are Community Treatment Orders needed to improve community mental healthcare for people with mental illnesses?”
• “Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympathy”
• “Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives”
• “Against loneliness we unite: A solidarity-based account of loneliness”
• “Tackling global health security by building an academic community for One Health action”
• “Public and healthcare provider receptivity toward the retention of dried blood spot cards and their usage for extended genetic testing in Hong Kong”
• “Incentivising civility in clinical environments”

2. Events
• “Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats”
• “An Overview on Gross Negligence Manslaughter from a Clinician’s Perspective and Mediation for Clinical Negligence Claims”

3. Video recordings of “Governance of Medical AI” Conference
• “Regulatory Governance of Medical AI”
• “Medical AI and Data Governance, with Focus on Genomics”

4. Media Updates
• Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients
• Manslaughter

5. MEHU Updates

6.  “Medical Ethics and Law” specialisation of the Master of Laws

7. Legal Updates
• Manslaughter Charges against Two Public Hospital Doctors Dropped
• Proposed Changes to the Mechanism for “Conditional Discharge” of Psychiatric Patients
• New Guidance on Data Breach Issued by Privacy Commissioner’s Office
• Memorandum of Understanding on Cross-boundary Data Flow in the Greater Bay Area Signed

1. Articles
• “Enforcing Global Health Law in Domestic Legal Systems: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”
• “Concordance of International Regulation of Pediatric Health Research”
• “COVID-19 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel’s Duty to Vaccinate”
• “A Lonely Death During a Pandemic”

2. Upcoming Event
• Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats

3. Video recordings of “Advance Directives Across Asia: Book Launch Events”
• “Potential Challenges for Hong Kong Healthcare Practitioners”
• “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns”

4. Media Updates
• Criminal Liability for Medical Errors
• Introduction of Advance Medical Directives
• Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients

5. MEHU Updates

6. Legal Updates
• Leave to appeal granted in liposuction gross negligence manslaughter case
• Single joint expert in personal injury litigation
• Chinese medicine practitioner convicted of Direct Marketing charges for misusing patient data
• Mainland China’s Measures on the Standard Contract for Cross-border Transfers of Personal Information came into operation

1. New CMEL Website
2. CMEL Instagram Page
3. Promotion and Appointment
4. Journal Article: “Harnessing Legal Structures of Virtue for Planetary Health”
5. Grant: “A Just Transitions Framework for Equitable and Sustainable Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance”
6. Video Recording: Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law 2023 cum Book Launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices (31 Mar)
7. Participation in Past Non-CMEL Events
8. Symposium on Bioethics in a Post-COVID World (18 May) and other Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) Events
9. Medical Law Updates

1. Book
• Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

2. Journal Articles
• “Medical Manslaughter in Hong Kong: What Now?”
• “From the Right to a Healthy Planet to the Planetary Right to Health”
• “The Conundrums of the Reasonable Patient Standard In English Medical Law”
• “How Do COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Affect the Young Working Class in the Philippines?”
• “Eating in Isolation: A Normative Comparison of Force Feeding and Solitary Confinement”
• “Loneliness—a clinical primer”
• “Feeling, cognition, and the eighteenth-century context of Kantian sympath”

3. Book Chapter
• Relationship with Colleagues

4. Book Review
• Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Towards Health Justice 

5. Past Event
• Webinar on Medical Manslaughter: An Overview and Case Studies

6. Upcoming Events
• Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law 2023 cum Book Launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practice
• Discussion on Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
• Addressing Health Inequities Experienced by Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong

7. Media Updates

8. Legal Updates

Bi-monthly Newsletter and Upcoming Events
Virtual Conference on Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic
Webinar on Gross Negligence Manslaughter
Webinar on Reproductive Genetic Screening