Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Volume 4 Number 1 January - March 1996
EDITORIALS
Creating conducive conditions for informed consent	Anil Pilgaokar
Doctors and the Consumer Protection Act	Anil Pilgaokar
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The right to a dignified death - need for debate	Kannamma Raman
Euthanasia	Eustace J. de Sousa
Understanding voluntary euthanasia	B. N. Colabawalla
Legal and ethical considerations of the 'Living Will'	Nagraj Huilgol
Health warning: injections can endanger health	H. V. Wyatt
Updates and conferences: bane or benefit?	S. Padmavati
Medical ethics and practice	Ramdas Ambulgekar
An objective look at the 'cut practice' in the medical profession	P. A. Kale

Health professionals and torture	Joergen Cohn
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Indo- German multidisciplinary symposium: medical ethics today	Sunil K. Pandya
INHHRO conference of health, human rights, ethics	Amar Jesani
LETTER
Determining foetal sex	Thomas George
VOX POPULI
Why are our medical services poor? The Consumer Protection Act Who is a 'Doctor'? Rioting doctors All is not lost! Vitamin C Who checks for laboratory errors? To kill or allow to die? Patients' rights flouted during clinical trial
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Women's rights related to local culture Disadvantages of multi- centre clinical research The rights of the aged Two ethical debates 1994's most bizarre suicide
HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL ETHICS The socio-political duties of the doctor

CODES
Council of Europe recommendations on psychiatry and human rights
Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms