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http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/nbc2005.html

CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS: Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

NATIONAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE

Ethical challenges in health care: global context, Indian reality

November 25, 26 and 27, 2005. YMCA, Mumbai Central, Mumbai, INDIA

The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics completed 12 years of publication in 2004.

During these years, it has contributed to and benefited from the emergence of

bioethics as a distinct discipline in India.

The IJME hopes to build upon this relationship through the National Bioethics

Conference. The conference aims to establish a regular platform for coming

together, sharing experiences, and fostering cooperation among individuals,

organisations and institutions concerned with bioethics in India.

Conference theme and focus sub-themes:

Bioethics in India has developed in response to multiple influences. The

community health movement has demanded universal access to basic health services

and offered a critique of professionalisation, mystification and

bureaucratisation in health care. The patients’ and consumers’ rights movement

has drawn attention to commercialisation in health care and medical malpractice.

The movement for rational therapeutics and drug price controls has analysed the

conduct of the pharmaceutical industry and doctors’ prescription practices. The

women’s movement has exposed the politics of population control and documented

ethical violations in contraceptive trials. While these and other significant

movements emerged from the specific political reality of India, they were - and

still are - also a response to global changes in the health sector. The process

of opening up the economy for global capital, the accelerated development of the

corporate health sector, the phenomenal increase in cheap

drug trials, the decline of public health sector and the rise in inequities –

all these have complex national and global interconnections. Further, in India,

they are strongly associated with an increase in violence, conflict and

fundamentalism. It is in this general context that one must view the emerging

ethical challenges in health care.

Focus sub-themes: Within this broad theme providing the framework to

deliberations at the conference, in-depth discussions will be held on the

following focus sub-themes.

(a) Ethical challenges in HIV/AIDS: The advancing epidemic of HIV/AIDS and the

extremes of cultural, religious, professional and other social responses to it

have posed severe ethical challenges in clinical practice, research, public

health and health policy. Stigma and discrimination in social and occupational

settings, and the intervention of people living with HIV/AIDS in defence of

their human rights, have shaped both the ethical challenges and the response of

health care providers.

(B) Ethics of life and death in the era of hi-tech health care: The increased

investment in hi-tech health care has posed ethical challenges in public policy,

resource allocation and addressing inequity. It has also highlighted ethical

complexities in specific areas such as organ transplantation, artificial

reproduction, euthanasia, palliative care and the use of sex selection

technologies.

© Ethical responsibilities in violence, conflict and religious strife: What

are the tensions between health professionals’ religious, caste, ideological and

other affiliations and their professional obligations, and how may they be

resolved? The subject of health professionals’ ethical responsibilities in

conflict situations is crucial, as is the question of researchers’ ethical

responsibilities when undertaking studies in such situations.

Cross cutting themes: Each of these sub-themes will be discussed in the context

of clinical practice, research and public health. Discussions will also be

informed by several cross cutting themes such as equity and access; culture and

religion; laws and regulations; provision for ethics reviews and consultations,

and so on.

Structure of the conference

The conference will be structured around morning plenary sessions with

presentations by experts; parallel sessions for each focus sub-theme; and late

afternoon/evening satellite sessions consisting of lectures, discussions,

role-plays (such as mock ethics review boards or clinical consultations), films

and cultural events.

Organising Committee (OC): The Conference will be a collaborative effort. We are

in the process of forming the OC for the Conference, which will be the decision

making body and do the selection of papers/concept notes. Institutions,

organisations and individuals interested in participating in this collaboration

are requested to contact us before February 28, 2005.

Submission of abstracts

Abstracts/concept notes (not exceeding 300 words) on topics within the theme and

focus sub-themes are invited from all who want to present papers or organise

cultural events and satellite sessions. The last date for sending abstracts is

June 30, 2005. Writers will be informed of the programme committee’s decision by

July 31, 2005.

Conference registration

Registration fees are inclusive of conference material, lunch and tea/coffee for

the three days of the conference. Registration fees are Rs 500 if paid before

July 31, 2005 and Rs 800 thereafter.

Accommodation

For outstation participants, accommodation at the venue (YMCA International

Guesthouse, Mumbai Central) is available in double occupancy rooms for Rs 1000

per day per person in air-conditioned rooms, and Rs 500 per day per person in

non-air-conditioned rooms (both inclusive of breakfast and dinner).

Please send abstracts/concept notes and all inquiries to:

bioethics2005@...

Anant Bhan

E-mail: <dranantbhan@...>

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