Indian Transplant Newsletter. Vol.18 Issue No.55. November 2018 - February 2019
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MOHAN Foundation makes presentations at 14th World Congress of Bioethics and 7th National Bioethics Conference in Bengaluru

Indian Transplant Newsletter.
Vol.18 Issue No.55. November 2018 - February 2019
Print ISSN 0972 - 1568
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The 14th World Congress of Bioethics of International Association of
Bioethics and the 7th National Bioethics Conference of Indian Journal
of Medical Ethics was held from 5th – 7th December 2018 at St. John's
National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru. It was co-organised
by Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Sama Resource Group for
Women and Health, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences,
and Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action
(SOCHARA).

The 14th World Congress of Bioethics of International Association of Bioethics and the 7th National Bioethics Conference of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics was held from 5th – 7th December 2018 at St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru. It was co-organised by Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, and Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action (SOCHARA).

The theme was Health for All in an Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics and it sought to strengthen bioethics in the context of health for all, by providing a relevant and critical platform to advance bioethics discourses and inform praxis - policies, programmes, guidance in the region and globally. Around 800 delegates from different parts of the globe participated in the congress.

The ve sub-themes around which intensive plenaries were organised were as follows:

1.Bringing rights and ethics to the centre in the 'Health for All’ discourse;

2.Rethinking bioethics boundaries in the context of 'Health for All';

3.Challenges for bioethics in an unequal world;

4.Implications of gender and sexuality in bioethics;

5.Interrogating the construct of marginalisation and vulnerabilities as obligations of bioethics.

The following abstracts from MOHAN Foundation were presented at the congress by Dr. Sumana Navin, Course Director and Sujatha Suriyamoorthi, Manager – Information Systems:

1. Should soliciting for organs be allowed through social media. Authors: Dr. Sunil Shroff, Pallavi Kumar, Dr. Sumana Navin. Accepted for Rapid Round presentation ( presented by Dr. Sumana Navin ).

2. Influence of extended family in decision making in donating organs – Ethical Dilemmas. Authors: Sujatha Suriyamoorthi, Dr. Sumana Navin. Accepted for Rapid Round presentation ( presented by Sujatha Suriyamoorthi).

3. Offering organ transplants to foreigners in India - Is this ethically challenging? Authors: Dr. Sumana Navin, Dr. Sunil Shroff. Accepted for Poster presentation ( presented by Dr. Sumana Navin ). 

Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director chaired a parallel track on End of life care ethics that examined topics like Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: ethically equivalent?, The ethics of treatment withdrawal after severe brain injury, Health for All? A medicolegal analysis of paediatricians’ end-of-life decision making for disabled children in the United Kingdom among others. 

 


To cite : Shroff S , Navin S. MOHAN Foundation makes presentations at 14th World Congress of Bioethics and 7th National Bioethics Conference in Bengaluru. Indian Transplant Newsletter. Vol.18 Issue No.55. November 2018 - February 2019.
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