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May 01, 1994
Forum for Medical Ethics sought and obtained opinion and advice from a variety of experts. It also studied some of the publications on the subject in medical and other journals. The following draft guidelines were then drawn up and are presented here. They could form the basis for the preparation...
May 01, 2004
Editorial note: Dr. Anantharam is a senior and respected consultant surgeon. His repugnance of the depths to which the malpractice of medicine has sunk has found expression in this essay.
May 01, 2000
The essay with this title' has asked several pertinent and important questions. I would like to add a few comments. The essay indicates that instead of expected relief, the patient encounters hostility, fear and rejection and asks why doctors and others behave thus.
May 01, 2004
As promised in the last issue, we feature an essay on ethics in medical research. We hope this will form the basis for meaningful discussion on steps to improve the current situation - Editor
August 01, 1994
Mr. Justice Michael Kirby is President. Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Sydney, Australia. He is a former member of the World Health Organisation Global Commission on AIDS. The address - from which excerpts are printed here with permission - was delivered at the International Cotlference on...
August 01, 1994
An abridged version of the statement issued by Paryay. He is a group fostering hrrmane alternatives to hysterectomy in the mentally handicapped. We oppose the decision on hysterectomy in severely mentally retarded women in the asylum run by the government.
August 01, 2000
The front page of the Indian Express on Sunday, 20 June 1993 featured a story on a pregnant woman, seriously ill with tetanus, admitted to the Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals in Bombay. The patient and fetus were being monitored in the medical intensive care unit and appr...
August 01, 1993
A short while ago, interventions were carried out by doctors (presumably under 'orders' from 'higher authorities') on persons competent to make decisions despite their protests. This raises the following issue: What does a medical practitioner do when the dictates of 'employers'/' State' co...
August 01, 1993
The Journal of Medical Ethics is published by the BMJ Publishing Group for the Institute of Medical Ethics in England.
August 01, 2000
In the issue of Journal of Medical Ethics dated March 1993 (19, 7-12, 1993) Povl Riis of Denmark pleads for uniform standards for medical ethics in Europe. In doing so he makes several statements that are worth pondering.