Sub-themes related to the clinical ethics for submitting abstract for oral presentations, poster exhibits, in-conference workshops/consultations/trainings:
- Ethical responsibility of access to affordable quality care as an ethical obligation
- Clinical ethics and reproductive health care (C-section, abortion, iVF, surrogacy, maternal and child health, ethics issues of birthing and maternal autonomy, violence against birthing women in delivery rooms)
- Clinical ethics and marginalised populations (ethnic communities, transpersons, disability community, sex workers, homeless populations, rural populations)
- Access to transgender therapies, and other special care matters
- Rational drugs prescription as an ethical obligation in clinical settings
- Understanding vulnerability in clinical ethics discourses
- Clinical ethics and specialised care context (EoLC, chronic health conditions, surgery)
- Communication amongst key players including patients and their significant others; and decision making in Intensive Care Units including legally mandated structures into withdrawal of care
- Treating families and communities
- Responding to violence within the system in clinical care settings; and responding to violence outside the health care system by caring survivors of violence
- Navigating through the sustained culture/trend of violence against health care professionals
- Nursing care and ethics matters
- Aspirations, expectations and perspectives of care users, and their significant others
- Dealing with medical negligence, and medical wrongs
- Dual loyalties/split responsibilities, conflict of interests, and avenues for mal-practices in clinical care settings
- Roles of health care professionals in conflicts, and disasters
- Clinical care and ethics during care provision during public health emergencies
- Health insurance policies and its implications for clinical care, and ethics of clinical practice
- Clinical ethics committees in Indian context – forms, innovations, non-formal, formal, experiences and efforts to strengthen this space
- Clinical ethics case consultations
- Medical education and clinical ethics (Indian context and historical trajectory, clinical ethics curricula, initiatives in India and South Asia, empirical research in clinical ethics)
- Explorations and engagement with Attitude, Ethics, and Communication (AETCOM), National Medical Commission (NMC), and National Education Policy (2017) in relation to strengthening clinical ethics in practice
- Ethics matters relating to introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based applications in health care
- Empirical research in clinical ethics
- Tackling therapeutic misconception in healthcare research
- Interfacing of clinical ethics, law, and human rights
- Indian philosophical traditions and clinical ethics
- Privatization and corporatisation of health care and its implications for accessibility and affordability of health care
The Organising Committee and the Scientific Program Committee also encourages submissions sub-themes relating to diverse issues from within the broader umbrella of bioethics outside the set of aforesaid sub-themes.