October - December 2009 Vol 6 Issue 4
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Response to an epidemic of novel H1N1 flu in Pune: need for introspection
The tragic drama of Novel H1N1 flu epidemic in Pune; the controversy surrounding the first death; the overburdening of the city’s meagre public health system and the unnecessary, long queues in front of the Sarojini Naidu Hospital, the Pune Municipal Corporation’s infectious disease hospital, call for much introspection by all the contributors to this tragedy. (...more)
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From judgement to practice: Section 377 and the medical sector
So the law against homosexual sex has been read down. The Delhi High Court in a landmark judgement has struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for adult consensual sex. Homosexual sex no longer comes under the purview of the law, except in cases of abuse or rape. Has this in any way affected the medical sector? (...more)
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About student research and blanket consent from patients
My first organised experience of learning about the working of ethics committees in India, and my interaction with some individuals who had served or were serving on them, was around 1998. I had just started research to formulate ethical guidelines for social science research in health for a national committee appointed for the purpose at the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai. In the course of this work we were confronted with the issue of ethical norms for student research and the need for ethics review of their research protocols. Most of those I met told me that their ethics committees never looked at student research proposals. A few years after the guidelines were published I started serving on ethics committees, and noticed that student research was not brought for ethics review. The justifications for this practice turned out to be the same that I had heard from members earlier.(...more)
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