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(Supporting Organisation) Symposium on Bioethics in a Post-Covid World

Registration Link: [For HKU members] / [For non-HKU members] Covid-19 has potentially changed the world as we know it. As the World Health Organization desperately urges countries to consider and address the health impacts of long-Covid, some countries are still struggling to mitigate the pandemic and/or suffering the economical and psychological effects of the responses to the virus. This symposium aims to consider the potential bioethical implications, dilemmas, and role in a post-Covid...

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Icon Feather Calendar 16 May , 2023

Governance of Medical AI

Timetable (時間表):English Version: Click here中文版: 按此 Programme (會議概要): English Version: Click here中文版: 按此 Registration (報名參加):Click here (按此) The regulatory governance of medical devices with machine learning / artificial intelligence capabilities and related application in genomic medicine is increasingly risk-based, context-specific, case-sensitive, decentralised, collaborative and, in terms of its epistemic constituents, pluralistic. With focus on governance policies of the National Medical...

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(Co-organised) Psychedelics and the Crisis of Psychiatric Medicine

An Anthropological Lecture by Nicolas Langlitz Title: “Psychedelics and the Crisis of Psychiatric Medicine” Since no genuinely new drugs for the treatment of mental illness had been successfully developed for decades, major pharmaceutical corporations in the 2010s decided to dramatically reduce investments in research on mental health medicines. In parallel to this crisis in psychopharmacology, however, one branch of research began to boom. Drug regulators in the United States declared...

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Advance Directives Across Asia: Book Launch Events – “Potential Challenges for Hong Kong Healthcare Practitioners” & “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns” [CPD/ CME]

Programme Booklet: click here   Objective, Coverage and Learning Outcomes:1. Event on 2 May 2023: Broadly give an overview of the practical challenges associated with the law and practice of advance directives in Hong Kong for healthcare practitioners and others Broadly give an overview of the practical challenges associated with the law and practice of advance directives in Singapore for healthcare practitioners and others Broadly discuss key issues relating to the development of the...

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Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law 2023 & Book Launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices [CPD/ CME]

Selected Updates on Hong Kong Health Law in the Year 2022: click here Video recording (click here to watch on YouTube)  This seminar is intended to provide an overview of significant and noteworthy regulatory and case law developments affecting medical and health law in Hong Kong. This seminar will also feature a book launch of Healthcare Law and Ethics: Principles & Practices (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2023). Dr James S. P. CHIU, co-editor, will introduce the book....

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Icon Feather Calendar 15 Mar , 2023

Jan-Feb 2023 Issue

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 •...

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