Power, health and ethics
Apr-Jun 2024_cover page jpg

Power and money exert control in all spheres, and healthcare is no exception. This issue has authors showing how the powerless are affected in myriad ways: financial clout influences our health right from the framing of diagnostic criteria, as an editorial explains, to the pharma promotion of opioids, globally. Gaza’s healthcare systems have been systematically pounded to rubble; Indian transgender individuals struggle for access to gender-affirming surgeries and the right to menstrual health. Fearful of financial pressure, the most deprived healthcare workers, the ASHAs, pray that greed will never corrupt their work ethic.

A research article evaluates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on research and how systems were developed to expedite publication; another studies and compares trends in medical ethics publications in the EMRO countries. An author lays out the reasons why researchers can no longer afford to publish their work, and an oncologist shares her experience of maintaining a delicate balance between clinical detachment and a genuine connection in patient care.

And amidst the earth’s failing health, two authors urge that planetary health education should be an essential part of medical curricula. All this and more, with thought provoking reviews to capture your attention.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cover credit: Pedaller on the Beach, courtesy Dr Prashanth YM

Editorial

89 View Download PDF

Research Articles

94 View Download PDF
101 View Download PDF
109 View Download PDF
114 View Download PDF
121 View Download PDF

Commentaries

127 View Download PDF
130 View Download PDF
135 View Download PDF
142 View Download PDF
147 View Download PDF

LAW

149 View Download PDF
154 View Download PDF

REFLECTIONS

159 View Download PDF

MEDIA REVIEWS

161 View Download PDF
162 View Download PDF
164 View Download PDF
165 View Download PDF
252 View Download PDF

Letters

168 View Download PDF
169 View Download PDF

Financial Report

171 View Download PDF
Help IJME keep its content free. You can support us from as little as Rs. 500 Make a Donation