July 01, 2013
Internationally, there is an increasing awareness of the need to include humanities in the medical curriculum. The Medical Humanities Group at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, organised a series of events to explore this area. This paper describes our experience with Augusto ...
Setu Gupta, Abhinav Agrawal, Satendra Singh, Navjeevan Singh
April 01, 2013
There is little data in India on the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. But personal and incidental information shows that their use is far more extensive than is believed. This use occurs beyond the arena of high-level competitive sports. Even if the guidelines of the national and wor...
Kaveri Prakash
April 01, 2013
Over the last decades, most countries have indeed acceded to at least one global or regional covenant confirming the right to health. The right to health should be achieved, among others, by making essential medicines of assured quality at an affordable price.
Raffaella M Ravinetto, Thomas PC Dorlo, Jean-Michel Caudron, NS Prashanth
April 01, 2013
Continuous innovations mark progress in the craft of surgery. Throughout history, successes and failures in innovations have raised ethical issues. In this article, I discuss the subject based on my experience as a paediatric cardiac surgeon. I conclude that discussion with peers, openness to cri...
Shivapraksasha K
April 01, 2013
Complications related to the use of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques are inherent to innovation in medicine. Appropriate consent should be obtained before subjecting patients to these techniques. In spite of doing this, when a complication does occur, one can easily relate to its devasta...
Ravi Ramakantan
April 01, 2013
During the first half of the last century and earlier, the medical profession did precious little about disease. Was it Oliver Wendell Holmes who said, 'Take out the poppy, take out the foxglove and the willow, it is my belief that, if the rest of the material medica were thrown into the se...
Mani MK
January 01, 2013
Several instances of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to most drugs were reported in Mumbai in January 2012. Eventually, the Government of India declared TB to be a notifiable disease. This paper looks at the utility of notification and the ethical issues posed by it from a public health practice p...
Nilesh Gawde
January 01, 2013
Bioethics is a relatively new way of thinking about relationships in medical practice. It enables reflection on ethical conflicts, and opens up management options without dictating rules. Despite this historical context, medical ethics has been sidelined in the course of the development of bio...
Ivan Dieb Miziara, Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara
April 01, 2013
India is one of the pioneering countries in the developing world that explicitly recognised the key role of science and technology in addressing problems of development. Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime architect of modern India, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in 1938, stated that scienc...
K J Joseph
April 01, 2013
The European Commission has proposed a new regulation to replace the current clinical trials directive. The proposed regulation aims at accelerating the application procedure and simplifying and harmonising the administrative requirements for multi-centre trials across the European Union.
Annelies Den Boer, Irene Schipper
