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January 01, 2005
In this case, Ms Pisal and Ms Bandewar raise two important (and related) ethical challenges facing social science researchers, particularly those conducting community-based research. These are: evolving an appropriate concept of informed decisionmaking in community-based research, and negotiating...
October 01, 2004
The case presents the problems grappled with during a study done as part of post-graduate thesis work during 2000-2001 among certain tribal communities in north-central India, and the way they were resolved at the time.
October 01, 2004
The account reminded me of similar communities with whom I have interacted. For example, among some Aboriginal Canadians, traditionally hunter-gatherers, the chief was identified as the one most capable of assuring the tribe's survival—by his skills and his ability to discern and accommodate the ...
October 01, 2004
It must have been difficult to work with a tribal community as Mr Rajan Patil has. The questions he asks are valid and tricky to resolve or reach a consensus on. The researcher's willingness to speak on these problems in the public domain must be appreciated; such dilemmas are often not even ackn...
July 01, 2004
SK is 32 years old. He is now destitute and depends on charity for food and shelter. Till two years ago, he was a construction worker and earned enough to live a lower middle-class life. One day he fell off a building during construction. He fractured his right femur and left hip. He was taken to...
July 01, 2004
This case study is, unfortunately, not uncommon in our set-up and is a fallout of the societal attitude that accepts that those working in government organisations are going to work elsewhere to make extra money. This tolerance accords legitimacy to this illegal practice where the person involved...
October 01, 2003
Suresh and I [KS] were called the Siamese twins. We went to the same school and college. We branched off later—I became a doctor and Suresh an engineer-but we kept in touch. When he told me of his daughter's marriage, I was overjoyed, but then my son's college entrance exam was in Mumbai on the s...
July 01, 2003
I [SK] am the chairperson of the review board of medical ethics research involving human subjects at the Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Thailand. On a number of occasions our committee found it difficult to make a decision, so I would like to put forward a case study for discussion to...
October 01, 2002
It is interesting to note that ethics in medicine has different connotations to different people. What some believe to be ethical, others may call unethical.
October 01, 2002
Much has changed since the time of my internship nearly three decades ago. The private sector in health care has grown disproportionately and has better health care facilities than public hospitals have, specifically in terms of access to newer technologies. However, this advantage is denied to m...