Sub-themes related to clinical ethics for submitting abstracts for paper presentations and poster  presentations, and proposals for in-conference workshops/symposiums.

This is an indicative list.

1. Ensuring access to affordable quality care to all as an ethical obligation: opportunities and challenges
2. Clinical ethics and reproductive healthcare (C-section, abortion, iVF, surrogacy, maternal and child health, ethical issues related to birthing and maternal autonomy, and violence against birthing women in delivery rooms)
3. Clinical ethics and marginalised populations (ethnic communities, transgender persons, people with disabilities, sex workers, homeless populations, rural populations, and people from marginalized castes)
4. Rational drug prescriptions as an ethical obligation
5. Vulnerability in clinical ethics discourses
6. Clinical ethics and specialised care contexts (End of Life care, chronic health conditions, surgery, and gender-affirming care)
7. Communication amongst key stakeholders, including patients and their significant others
8. Decision-making in Intensive Care Units, including regarding withdrawal of care
9. Violence in clinical care settings, including by and against healthcare professionals
10. Caring for survivors of violence
11. Care and ethics in nursing
12. Dealing with medical negligence, medical errors, and medical wrongs
13. Conflicts of interest, and avenues for malpractices in clinical care
14. Healthcare in conflicts, disasters, and public health emergencies
15. Health insurance policies and clinical care
16. Integrative medicine, AYUSH, and clinical ethics
17. Clinical ethics committees in Indian context: forms, innovations, efforts, and experiences
18. Medical education and clinical ethics (Indian context and historical trajectory, clinical ethics curricula, initiatives in India and South Asia, and empirical research in clinical ethics)
19. Clinical ethics practice and Attitude, Ethics, and Communication (AETCOM), National Medical Commission (NMC), and National Education Policy (2017)
20. Clinical ethics and artificial intelligence in healthcare
21. Clinical ethics and diagnostics
22. Clinical and biomedical experimental research in clinical care settings
23. Clinical ethics, law, and human rights
24. Indian philosophical traditions and clinical ethics
25. Privatization and corporatisation of healthcare and its implications for accessibility and affordability of healthcare
26. Any other themes that fall within the broader domain of bioethics, beyond those mentioned above relating to clinical ethics