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Critical Care Fireside Chat Series
Title: Interdisciplinary insights into humanistic and ethical practice of intensive care medicine
Organiser:
Critical Care Medicine Unit, HKUMed
Supporting organizations:
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, HKUMed
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU
Date & Time: 20 Jan 2025 (Mon) at 11:15 am – 12:15 pm (HKT)
Venue: Seminar Room 4, 4/F, Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road,
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Abstract:
Contemporary intensive care medicine blurs the boundary between life and death, and transforms the way we understand and manage critical illness. Intensive care brings hope to gravely ill patients and their families, but it also generates an enormous amount of uncertainty and moral burden for those involved in the provision of life-sustaining treatment. In this inaugural event of the Critical Care Fireside Chat series, we welcome everyone from Sassoon Road and beyond, to join our exploration of the intersection of ethics, humanities and medicine.
Discussants:
Prof Ruiping Fan
Chair Professor of Philosophy
Department of Public and International Affairs
City University of Hong Kong
Biosketch:
Ruiping Fan holds a medical degree from Baotou College of Medicine in Baotou, a MA from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and a PhD in philosophy from Rice University in Houston. Combining his biomedical background with a profound understanding of contemporary ethical and political philosophy, he offers innovative bioethical and philosophical perspectives that draw upon both Eastern and Western cultural traditions. Over the past two decades, he has played a pivotal role as one of the key initiators and organizers of the “Building Chinese Bioethics” workshop series, successfully completing 17 workshops. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine, a bilingual journal based in Hong Kong. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy in the United States and the Chinese Medical Ethics journal in mainland China. Ruiping Fan’s extensive publications include over 200 journal articles and book chapters that are evenly distributed between the English and Chinese languages. Notable monographs authored by him include “Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West” (2010) in English, “Contemporary Confucian Bioethics” (2011) in Chinese, and “Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought” (2023) in Chinese. He has also served as an editor or co-editor for 11 volumes, with six published in English and five in Chinese, focusing on topics related to bioethics and Confucian studies. Among his recent volumes are “Sex Robots: Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations” (Springer 2021) and “Incentives and Disincentives for Organ Donation: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong” (Springer 2023). Ruiping Fan’s scholarly contributions have been recognized, as he is ranked among the top 2% of most-cited scientists in the metrics compiled by Stanford University.
Prof Emmanuel Cheung
Clinical Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine Unit, HKUMed
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU
Welcome to join us!
Enquiry: Please contact Mr Adrian Chan (ccmu@hku.hk).