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January 01, 1996
Throughout history, human beings have been exposed to atrocities by each other. Unfortunately, health professionals have been involved in and have played a major role during several unethical processes e.g. medical experiments on victims during World War II. Even at the present time health profes...
October 01, 1995
One of my concerns after joining a cancer hospital was the manner of conveying the diagnosis to the patient with cancer. Most of us receive little formal training on this aspect of medicine during undergraduate and postgraduate training. All I can recall is telling the relatives of patients...
October 01, 1995
The thought of women having abortions in order to choose the sex of their future children fills many with revulsion. To think clearly about this issue, it is necessary to separate arguments about the ethics of sex determination (SD) from those pertaining to abortion. People who find abortio...
October 01, 1995
In a socio-cultural set-up which promotes son-preference and discrimination against daughters, sex-determination (SD) - both at pre-conception and ante-natal stage can have only one meaning i. e. female-extermination. Ruth Macklin's article 'The ethics of sex determination' (Medical Ethics ...
October 01, 1995
There is no denying that much is wrong with our public hospitals. Recent economic policies promoting privatisation have brought into sharp focus all public sector units including public hospitals. Experts and the general public perceive public hospitals as inefficient, dirty, unhygienic and...
October 01, 1995
The most important feature was the universal health care cover for all citizens. The economic status of a patient was never a consideration in determining the choice of therapy. With ever-increasing costs of hightech medical care, this seemed, at times, a non-sustainable situation. The cost...
July 01, 1995
The golden age of medicine for the individual medical man was the last century. There were few effective drugs available and all the doctor could do was to 'cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.' No one expected a doctor to prolong life, and the profession had little responsibility...
July 01, 1995
On February 14, 1995, the Medical Service Centre of Karnataka State, organised a convention in Bangalore to discuss the problems arising from renal transplantation. The following excerpts have been taken from the resolution passed at the close of the meeting
July 01, 1995
Not many in the medical fraternity have been surprised by the exposure of the sale of kidneys in Bangalore. A more worrying aspect is that several are not shocked. They argue that taking kidneys from a donor unrelated to the recipient is not, per se, unethical. It is only the commercialism that i...
July 01, 1995
This is the first in a more or less regular series of essays to appear in Medical Ethics. The series will attempt to provide a critical and relevant analysis of Western medicine not available in current journals. The issues to be discussed are described briefly below. They concern both the Third ...