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July 01, 1999
Throughout the world societies deprive individuals of their liberty in response to real or perceived misdemeanors. Such persons are held in a number of institutions, their names varying from country to country, and according to what stage of the judicial system these persons are passing through. ...
January 01, 1999
Ethics in the medical practice of Allopathy has been a subject of innumerable debates, seminars and conferences. But the ethical issues at the interface and overlap of Allopathy and Ayurveda have received scant attention so far. India is the world leader in pluralism of medicine, with more than h...
January 01, 1999
Being interested in the possibility and implications of a different knowledge system, one of us (Anuradha Veeravalli) had read parts of Carakasamhita, an Ayurvedic text, in translation. Its understanding of health, disease, treatment and pharmacopia was fundamentally different. For insta...
January 01, 1999
In this paper I will examine Biomedicine and Ayurveda and their approach to women. I will argue that despite the vast differences between these two systems, and their concepts of man, they treat women similarly. So, even though ethics plays different roles in each system, neither ethical discours...
January 01, 1999
Whilst working (as a member of a team set up by Jan Seva Mandal) with the vaidus of Nandurbar Taluka, Dhule District, Maharashtra, I witnessed the strict code of ethics followed by these traditional healers.
April 01, 1999
There are a number of reports of hospitals testing their patients for HIV without their consent. This practice is both unethical and useless.
April 01, 1999
Between five and 10 per cent of HIV infection is acquired perinatally. The incidence of such infection will rise as more women get infected. Children with HIV progress to AIDS-related illness more rapidly than do adults. Hence, the prevention or reduction of perinatal transmission rates is an ess...
October 01, 1998
A critique of the management of rape and sexual assault in women and girl children
October 01, 1998
One of modern civilisation's achievements is the realisation and dissemination of the knowledge that the rights to life, liberty and security of person are primary, inherent and inalienable to every human being, irrespective of race, nationality, economic status or other man-made discriminations,...
July 01, 1998
Medical ethics and medical education could mean different things to different generations, different students. So we sought people's experiences, and their comments on what medical ethics mean in the lives of students and teachers today. The questions were constructed so as to identify the links ...
