Titel: Ethical challenges in health care: global context, Indian reality

Termin: 25.11.2005 bis 27.11.2005

Veranstaltungsort:
YMCA International Guesthouse
Mumbai Central
Mumbai, India

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

Kurzbeschreibung: 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.

Kontakt: National Bioethics Conference
IJME c/o CSER
Candelar, 4th Floor
26 St. John Baptist Road
Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050
India

Tel.: +91 - (0)22 - 26 40 67 03
Fax: +91 - (0)22 - 26 67 31 56

bioethics2005@yahoo.co.in
http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/

Veranstalter: Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Schlagworte: AIDS, Gesundheitswesen, Lebensbeginn, Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Medizinische Ethik, Pharmazeutik