The Society and its journal were born after a failed attempt at entering the Maharashtra Medical Council in order to improve its functioning. We have travelled a great distance in the 24 years since they were founded, and the 12-page issue has grown.

Ethics is integral to the legitimacy of modern healthcare. It helps protect patients' rights, facilitates the conduct of transparent and humane research, and enables medical practitioners to deliver rational, patient-friendly and compassionate care. And yet it continues to be largely absent from ...

The IJME National Bioethics Conferences are a meeting ground for delegates from India and abroad to report, debate and brainstorm on a wide range of ethical issues in health, healthcare and health research. Each NBC has witnessed the active participation of bioethicists from across the globe.

FMES Public Debate EoLC @ TISS on July 16, 2016 Forum for Medical Ethics Society Public Debate Healing and dying with dignity: Debating end-of-life care A lot of public debate on euthanasia was parked off by the 42-year-long struggle of the nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who was in a persistent vegetative...