Category: Editorials
Infertility – an unfinished reproductive rights agenda in…
Twenty-five years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) mandate in 1994, India has fallen far short of providing universal access to preventive and treatment services for infertility. This mandate was a call to “prioritize the reproductive health and rights of al...
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature…
The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of th...
Ending caste-based oppression of students in educational institutions:…
The question of students from marginalised communities dying by suicide in higher education institutions (HEIs), including medical institutions, persists across India. Most would agree, regardless of differences about the underlying causes, that such deaths demonstrate the abysmal failure of poli...
Covid-19 vaccines: The public must have confidence in…
EDITORIAL Covid-19 vaccines: The public must have confidence in the science Sandhya Srinivasan DOI:https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2021.006 Keywords: Covid-19, vaccine hesitancy, transparency, immunisation, safety, efficacy As the Covid-19 vaccine is rolled out across India, a number of reports hav...
DNAR Guidelines: Supporting end-of-life decisions
The Indian Council of Medical Research Consensus Guidelines on ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ (DNAR) were published in the April 2020 issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research (1), and simultaneously in the National Medical Journal of India (2). It is a timely effort at resolving a long-sta...
Ethics of clinical research and practice in India…
Covid-19 has been one of the worst public health calamities faced by humankind in over a century. As of July 23, 2020, there have been 15,633,159 confirmed cases and 635,422 deaths reported, worldwide (1). We are six months into the pandemic, and yet we know little about the disease. The role of ...
Integrating concerns of gender, sexuality and marital status…
The introduction of AETCOM (attitude, ethics and communication) (1) is seen as an effort at incorporating Medical Humanities (MH) within the medical curriculum. For the first time, India’s medical curriculum includes modules on the patient-doctor relationship, helping doctors to address ethical d...
Response to Covid-19: An ethical imperative to build…
China reported cases of a severe form of pneumonia in December 2019 from Wuhan city, Hubei province. The virus causing this illness was identified as the novel Coronavirus 2019, which has now been christened Covid-19. The illness is characterised by fever, cough, body pain and in a few cases, pro...
The health situation in Jammu and Kashmir: What…
We are witness today to a democratic country violating multiple rights of an entire state of its own citizens. Starting from August 5, 2019, it is now over two months that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been under a lockdown, and there was also a communication blockade. Initially all modes o...
Something is rotten in our medical colleges
Marcellus’ observation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1) that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (Act 1, Scene 4) could well be applied to medical education in India today. and could be followed up by repeating another statement earlier in the play, “and I am sick at heart.” (Act 1, Scene...
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