31 October 2024
Event Date(s)
31 October, 18 December 2024, 09 April, 10 April, 30 April 2025
Organised by:
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
31 October 2024
What Personal Qualities are Necessary to Forgive in Environments of Deep Disagreement?
In a world increasingly polarised along ideological lines, where intractable political and other forms of disagreement shape our daily lives, personal relationships can fracture, making forgiveness hard to achieve. What is required to forgive in such circumstances? In this workshop, the speaker examined the psychological conditions encountered by individuals seeking to forgive in environments of deep disagreement. The speaker outlined a virtue-based account of forgiveness and addressed objections raised by Pamela Hieronymi regarding the virtues necessary for forgiveness.
18 December 2024
Annual Review of Hong Kong Health Law
This seminar examined important legal developments in Hong Kong health law and significant recent UK decisions that have influenced Hong Kong health law in areas such as:
- medical negligence;
- professional misconduct; and
- manslaughter.
9 April 2025
Medical Consent: Practical Implications for Hong Kong
Consent is fundamentally important to medical practice since it largely determines whether treatment is lawful. In the 10 years following the landmark decision in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire, which established a pro-patient standard for information disclosure, several significant legal changes have occurred. This seminar explored the legal issues surrounding consent to medical treatment, including important decisions from across common law and legislative interventions, such as the Advance Decision on Life-Sustaining Treatment Ordinance. The practical application and implications of these developments for medical practice in Hong Kong were also examined.
10 April 2025
(Co-organised) A Cross-disciplinary Workshop to Address Loneliness as a Global Public Health Concern
This workshop aimed at establishing a robust interdisciplinary collaborative effort in Hong Kong to prevent and address loneliness and its negative health effects, engaging policymakers to optimise social health by identifying knowledge gaps and informing practices, highlighting state-of-the-art knowledge and existing controversies surrounding loneliness, and inspiring students to engage with issues related to loneliness.
30 April 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Disability: How Can AI Promote Inclusion and Equity for Disabled People?
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for advancing health research and care in a wide range of applications. This promise extends to the disability domain as well, particularly in the development of assistive technologies that incorporate AI and automated decision making (ADM) to improve their function. However, the integration of AI in the provision of disability services can also present challenges. These are often due to a lack of in-depth knowledge of people with disabilities and sometimes to societal ableism, which can perpetuate bias and discrimination through the development and use of AI technologies. In this presentation, the speaker discussed theoretical and empirical work carried out at the Disability Innovation Institute at the University of New South Wales. The research examines the views of people with disability on AI-supported technologies and proposes possible solutions.
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