Category: Discussions
The medical profession and human rights
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,...
Medical ethics and medical education: some thoughts
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 ...
A short note
Did your medical education include any discussion of medical ethics?
Community medical ethics
We often saw patients being investigated for research purposes, not for their own good. I remember one seriously-ill patient being subjected to all sorts of painful tests, though he was clearly going to die anyway. When I asked my seniors, they said he was an interesting case, and they might as w...
Not an educational experience
My first memory of my medical college days is of a professor who would ask me strange questions during the bedside clinic, such as: "Where is Kamshet?" or, "Where are the Alpana Talkies?" As an outsider to the city,I had no clue of the correct answer. Everybody enjoyed such interrogations except ...
Teaching medical ethics : a model
To the best of our knowledge, medical ethics is not taught as a separate subject in Indian medical colleges. St John's Medical College has a programme for teaching medical ethics to its undergraduate students. We describe here the structure of our programme, the syllabus and the teaching methodol...
Clinical trials: some ethical issues
All research designs have their strengths and limitations. A comparison of lung cancer in the US and India with average tobacco intake in the two countries could say something about whether cigarette smoke causes cancer. So could following two groups, of smokers and of non-smokers, over ten years...
Clinical trials: the pitfalls of interpretatio
Advances are constantly being made in medical science. There has been a marked increase in the number of medical journals. The corporate sector has also entered this field in a big way. Many newer medical periodicals are being published by corporate houses. These are often distributed by post or ...
Ethics of contraceptive research: some issues
Contraceptive research has been driven by the need of the provider, not the user, comments the Forum for Women's Health
Racist exploitation or exploitation of racism?
Discussions of the placebo-controlled clinical trials for HIV have focussed on methodological questions, ignoring the fact that treatments are available but unaffordable
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