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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 ...
July 01, 1995
Psychiatry entails ethical dilemmas in defining normal and abnormal, diagnosis and treatment, individual freedom, con? dentiality, competency, commitment and other complex issues.
July 01, 1995
Any conduct of the doctor which is reasonably regarded as disgraceful or dishonorable by professional men of good repute and competence.
January 01, 1995
Prof. Upendra Baxi, a well known expert on law and a former vice chancellor of Delhi and South Gujarat universities, in his comments on Women's Studies in the ICSSR Newsletter seven years back, made some incisive and disturbing comments on the coverage of violence in social science discourses in ...
January 01, 1995
The overwhelming need to write on privacy dawned upon me only when I had a personal experience in this matter some time ago. My colleague had just been appointed as a lecturer in a municipal hospital and as part of various formalities had to get a certificate of medical fitness. Besides other inv...
January 01, 1995
The Maharashtra Medical Council Act (hereafter re-ferred to as the Act), legislated in 1965, has deficiencies that do not allow the Council to respond to changes in the patterns of medical practice, education and health-care services and the vast increase in number of medical practitioners over t...
January 01, 1995
It is more than ten years since over forty tonnes of lethal gases leaked from the pesticide plant in Bhopal belonging to Union Carbide Corporation. The leak affected over 500,000 persons. Most of these gases (which included methyl isocyanate, hydrogen cyanide and monomethylamine) have produced pe...