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October 01, 2011
This paper aims to highlight three ethical considerations related to influenza pandemic planning and response: ethical allocation of scarce resources; obligations and duties of healthcare workers to treat patients, and the balance between conflicting individual and community interests. Among thes...
October 01, 2011
This paper will examine the question of whether patients, who receive free medical care, whether from private charitable or governmental hospitals, can claim rights as ‘consumers’ under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The issue will be discussed from a constitutional perspective as well as tha...
October 01, 2011
Agrawal and Banerjee in their article have brought up the interesting question of whether healthcare providers can be held liable under the Consumer Protection Act even for healthcare services that they have provided free of cost.
October 01, 2011
The ethics of live surgery was first questioned in India in 2003, by N Ananthakrishnan with responses from Sanjay Nagral and Ramesh Ardhanari. The lay press in India discussed the issue in 2004. Experts in western countries have also debated its possible ill effects as reports emerge of mishaps i...
October 01, 2011
In our country, patients operated on in a live surgical workshop held at government hospitals are generally unable to bear the expenses of the surgery and have come to the public facility because they have no other choice. It is wrong in this situation for the consultant under whom the patient is...
October 01, 2011
The Bombay High Court’s dismissal of the appeal in the TISS rape case is extremely distressing to us. As an organisation that works on a routine basis with survivors of sexual assault, as well as doctors who record and collect the relevant medical evidence and provide treatment to these survivors...
July 01, 2011
Whilst India has been debating how to regulate ‘surrogacy’, the UK has undergone a major consultation on increasing the amount of ‘expenses’ paid to egg ‘donors’, while France has recently finished debating its entire package of bioethics regulation and the role of its Biomedicine Agency.
July 01, 2011
In 2009 Sankaranarayanan et al published their findings from a large cluster-randomized, controlled trial of a single round of HPV testing, cytology testing or visual inspection with acetic acid - with appropriate treatment for those confirmed positive - as interventions to decrease mortality fro...
July 01, 2011
The study in Osmanabad district, India , was organised to measure the effect of a single round of screening by HPV testing, or quality assured cytology, or visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) on cervical cancer incidence and mortality, whereas reductions in disease have followed repeated rou...
July 01, 2011
For centuries, the handling of childbirth and childcare was considered the domain of midwives and mothers. The second half of the 20th century witnessed a change in thinking. The role of the state in improving the health of people came to the forefront. In the opening years of the 21st century, t...