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  • Journal Article
  • 2021

Law, virtue, and public health powers

by Eric C. Ip
in Public Health Ethics

The ultimate purpose of public health is human flourishing. The means of pursuing this end is to entrust public health powers to officials to virtuously serve the common good, of which population health is one of its most important constituents, within the bounds of the law of the land. Public health law is thus properly set to encourage virtue and discourage vice among public health officials.

Health is a precondition for human well-being not just at the individual but also the population level. And yet, the standard dilemma in public health law and ethics is that intervention in response to epidemics and other health hazards will inevitably be caught in the tug of war between population and individual well-being. Legal restrictions imposed in the name of health are often in tension with rights and freedoms of individuals guaranteed by international and domestic human rights instruments. CMEL’s research in these areas chiefly examines how law can be developed and deployed to promote and protect public health in ethical and constitutional ways.

Areas that have been explored in CMEL’s research include:

  1. Human rights and ethical implications of national legal responses to COVID-19;
  2. China’s Basic Healthcare and Health Promotion Law 2019;
  3. Systematic analysis of Hong Kong’s legal responses to COVID-19; and
  4. Ethical principles for public health and epidemiology.

More information is available on the personal profile page of our Professor Eric C. Ip

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  • Journal Article
  • 2021

The political determinants of China’s new health constitution

by Eric C. Ip
in Medical Law Review

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  • Book Chapter
  • 2021

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China: Legal response to COVID-19

co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press)

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  • Journal Article
  • 2020

COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic

co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Law and the Biosciences

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  • Journal Article
  • 2020

COVID-19 emergency measures are hurting democracy globally

co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in American Journal of Public Health

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  • Journal Article
  • 2020

COVID-19 lockdowns: A public mental health ethics perspective

by Daisy Cheung & Eric C. Ip
in Asian Bioethics Review

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  • Journal Article
  • 2020

Preparing for the coming transnational cancer crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic

co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in Cancer Causes & Control

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  • Journal Article
  • 2020

China’s new public health constitution: A cause for hope?

by Eric C. Ip
in The Lancet Public Health

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  • Journal Article
  • 2019

The virtuous epidemiologist

by Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Public Health

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