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April 30, 2023
As I write down my thoughts about Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy, “Vasantha Madam” to so many of us, I remember being surprised that each meeting revealed a new facet of her amazing range of skills. A woman of such substance, that so many of us looked up to her as a role model. Not a role model up on a p...
April 30, 2023
It was the year 2001, and on joining the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), I was posted directly under Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy, Senior Deputy Director General and Head, Division of Basic Medical Sciences (BMS). She offered me a seat in her own office and a place in her heart, and this was...
May 07, 2022
Much has been written, and much will be written, about Paul Farmer whose sudden passing on February 21, at the age of 62 has left legions of people bereft. This is my personal eulogy to a man I knew for about a decade, most closely since I joined the Department he chaired at Harvard Medical Schoo...
January 09, 2022
Dr Ramalingam, lovingly known to all of us as Ram, an eminent clinical pharmacologist and bioethicist, excelled in his role of Principal and Dean of PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, (PSGIMSR) Coimbatore, and as a human being, in his dealings with his peers and students.
October 11, 2021
Keshav Desiraju (1955-2021) former Union Health Secretary, who passed away on September 5, 2021, was an uncommon bureaucrat and extraordinary human being. Many obituaries and eulogies have been written about his contribution to public health in India and his personal qualities in helping those in...
July 16, 2021
In the passing away of Dr Smarajit Jana on May 8, after a battle with Covid-19, India and the world have lost one of the most resourceful and compassionate development workers and a medical professional with the highest standards of ethics in both research and practice.
April 22, 2021
OBITUARY Dr RR Tongaonkar (1939 – 2020) Sanjib Mukhopadhyay Published online first on February 19, 2021. DOI:https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2021.010 It was November 2004. I was at Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, to attend the Association of Rural Surgeons of India (ARSI) conference. “Hello, Dr Mukhopadhyay!...
February 16, 2021
OBITUARY Satish Mahadeo Kulkarni (24 October 1952 – 18 November 2020) Published online first on November 21, 2020 The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics first came out as a small newsletter, Medical Ethics, in 1993. It has now been 27 years since that modest beginning, and Satish Kulkarni, wh...
August 06, 2019
Dan Callahan was a seminal figure in bioethics. In 1969, he co-founded the Hastings Center, one of the first organisations devoted to research and public programmes related to ethics in biology and medicine. The Center is celebrating its 50-year anniversary this year, and sadly, Dan is no longer ...
December 07, 2018
I would like to thank the organisers of this conference for their truly inspiring need to be in touch with the ideas and ethics of Health For All, with a tribute to Dr Amit Sengupta. I feel honoured to have been asked to be here. The storm of tributes to Amit from all over the world punctures one...