Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Volume 4 Number 4 October - December 1996
EDITORIAL
Cross practice at the cross-roads	Amar Jesani
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Our watchdog sleeps, and will not be awakened	M. K. Mani
Whistleblowing in the health-related professions	Gerald Vinten
Non-allopathic doctors form the backbone of rural health	HS Bawaskar
Medical ethics in India: ancient and modern ( I)	CM Francis
Doctors and the plague	Ghanshyam Shah
Violations of human rights in children world- wide - a challenge for health professionals	Joergen Cohn
The story of a still- born 'medical college'	Satya Pal Dung
LETTERS
The negative aspect of 'hi-tech' medicine	G. B. Bhatty
Patients' access to information	J. B. D'Souza
'Injections can endanger health'	Asha Booch
Ethics of authorship	Amar Jesani
Issues in Medical Ethics	M. U. Ayyar
Expert opinion in legal cases	Herat R Parmar
VOX POPULI
Doctors abetting artful dodgers (continued)
Doctors in trouble
Are doctors responsible professionals?
Action by Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC)
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Ethics and medical technology Distress at the thought of losing the uterus Surgery in a Jehovah's witness The 'unpatients' Have advance directives helped death with dignity? Forms for advance directives Ethics of refusing life- sustaining measures Rigged randomised trials Ugandan symposium on bioethics Moral issues of abortion Paying participants in research Ethics in the professional curriculum The Hippocratic Oath (continued) Genetic screening and informed consent

NEWS
Health professionals and human rights Amnesty International answers commonly asked questions III World Congress of Bioethics - 'Bioethics in an interdependent world' Euthanasia - a resource volume Graduate diploma in bioethics by distance education
REVIEWS
PST Quarterly	Amar Jesani
Directory of persecuted scientists, engineers and health professionals	Amar Jesani
FINANCIAL REPORT