THEME: Healing and dying with dignity: ethical issues in palliative care, end of life care and euthanasia
Guidelines for Abstracts
Abstracts that critically discuss cutting edge themes and concepts in Bioethics and those that describe research findings or project outcomes will be selected. Five plenaries will be woven around the sub-themes – Palliative care, end-of-life care and euthanasia – of the conference. However, parallel sessions for oral presentation of papers, poster presentations, workshops, and symposia will be open to subjects from within the broader discipline of bioethics, including the conference sub-themes.
Conformity to the prescribed format is essential.
Format for Abstracts
- Title
- Authors, Designation and Institutional Affiliation (if any): Please list authors in order (First Author to Last)
- Background and Purpose
- Description of research method or ethical issues / dilemmas
- Results of research or outcome of ethical inquiry
- Discussion (relate to bioethics principles and theories) and implications for bioethics
- Preferred mode of presentation (Tick): Oral / Poster / Either
- Name of person presenting the paper at the NBC
- Maximum number of words (parts 3-6 above) is 250
The Scientific Committee of the conference will use, among others, the following four criteria for reviewing the abstracts:
- Relevance to the subject of bioethics and the conference
- Clarity of ideas
- Originality
- Methodological Rigour
If you are interested in conducting a workshop at the conference, please do read our workshop guidelines available online at
Website: http://ijme.in/nbc-20140321/index.php/NBC-6/index/pages/view/nbc6-home
NB: The scientific committee appointed by the National Coordination Committee makes the final decision on the selection or abstracts and workshops
Submission by: Tuesday, 4th October 2016
Email id for submission of abstracts: [email protected]
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