The Journal of Medical Ethics is published by the BMJ Publishing Group for the Institute of Medical Ethics in England. The Institute has the following aims:

1. Improving the quality of professional and public discussion of medico-moral questions.
2. To promote the study of medical ethics.
3. To promote high academic standards in this ever developing subject.
4. To encourage a multidisciplinary approach to discussion of the consequences of clinical practice.
5. To stimulate research into specific subjects.

The Institute specifically states that it will remain non-partisan and independent of all interest groups and lobbies.

Publications from the Institute include Dilemmas of Dying, Life Before Birth and The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Health Cure. Among the shorter reports published are Assisted Death, HIV Infection and The Ethics of Medical Confidentiality.

We desperately need a similar body in India. Shall we make a start?