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May 10, 2017
The IJME Sixth National Bioethics Conference (6th NBC), on the theme "Healing and dying with dignity: ethical issues in palliative care, end-of-life care and euthanasia", was held in Pune, Maharashtra from January 12–15, 2017. Palliative care (PC) and end-of-life care (EOLC) are closely related a...
February 21, 2017
This article, based on the report of the fact-finding team on the gang rape and death of an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in Muzaffarnagar in January 2016, attempts to analyse the issues of the safety and mobility of front-line women health workers. It argues that although the National...
October 26, 2016
This paper uses data from two fact-finding exercises in two districts of Karnataka to trace how government and private doctors alike pushed women to undergo hysterectomies. The doctors provided grossly unscientific information to poor Dalit women to instil a fear of "cancer" in their minds to wil...
April 21, 2014
After almost a year of preparation and planning, the Workshop on Promoting professionalism and ethical practices in medicine was finally held on January 10, 2014, in Kolkata. It brought together Indian doctors from overseas, who were in Kolkata for the GAPIO annual conference (www.gapio.in), with...
May 05, 2016
Research is often conducted using laboratory samples and data. The ethical issues that arise in a study involving residual samples are considerably different from those arising in a prospective study. Some of these ethical issues concern the risks to confidentiality, individual autonomy, trust in...
April 24, 2015
The Fifth National Bioethics Conference (NBC) was co-hosted by St John's National Academy of Health Sciences (SJNAHS), Bangalore; Society for Community Health Research Awareness and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore; and Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Mumbai, which publishes the Indian Jo...
April 24, 2015
A transparent and evidence-based priority-setting process promotes the optimal use of resources to improve health outcomes. Decision-makers and funders have begun to increasingly engage representatives of patients and healthcare consumers to ensure that research becomes more relevant. However, di...
April 01, 2014
The major landmark in the implementation of bioethics in Brazil was the founding of the Brazilian Society of Bioethics (Sociedade Brasileira de Bioética – SBB) in 1995. Against the backdrop of an ethical vacuum in the healthcare sector, the SBB developed rapidly, with a special focus on the socia...
July 01, 2013
YRG CARE conducted The YRG CARE Bioethics Symposium (TYBS) in collaboration with the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Chennai, through the National Institutes of Health Project “Centrally Coordinated Bioethics Education for India” and the...
July 01, 2013
A national conference on the evolving roles of ethics committees in India was held on May 31 and June 1, 2013.The conference was organised by the Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Forum, and supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Apollo Hospitals, Sanofi, and Quintiles.