Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Volume 5 Number 3 July - September 1997
EDITORIAL
Private hospitals: a case of 'Physician, heal thyself?'	Sunil Nandraj
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The new genetics and ethics	H. Sarat Chandra
Second opinion: is it desirable?	Meenal Mamdani
The ethics of medical referral	Eustace J. de Souza
The need for education on a moral debate	Roland Derk Thijs
Learning and teaching outside the medical colleges	Chetan B. Bhatt
CONFERENCE REPORT
Bimal K. Bachhawat symposium on genome research: emerging ethical, legal, social and economic issues.May 22 - 25, 1997, Goa.	Sunil K Pandya
LETTERS
Ethics in medical education	Meenal Mamdani
Ethics in India	R. Srinivasan
Issues in Medical Ethics	Amrit Gangar, Bipin Desai, Ravi D'Souza, R.Venkataratnam, D. S. Shrotri
Modern medical practice	A. Uma, Thirumalai Kolundu Subramanian
Prescription by remote control	A concerned surgeon
Medical ethics: patients and relatives	Arvind Kapadia
VOX POPULI
On cloning and on the rights of patients Yet another regulatory agency... Fees charged by public hospitals Legal responsibility for medical error Human guinea pigs Faulty cancer trial? A laudable ruling favouring the patient with AIDS. Can patients trust anyone? The doctor's dilemma Breach of trust with HIV patients Conferences sponsored by drug companies Was an ICMR trial ethically deficient?
Caveat emptor... Ayurvedic drugs Dhaniram Baruah (continued) Hoodwinking the medical council Callous doctors Female foetuses unwanted Doctors in Bihar reject regulation Fraudulent autopsies
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Euthanasia in Australia Xenotransplants in Britain and the US Confidentiality. Awareness during general anaesthesia Fake admissions in Uttar Pradesh medical college. Chennai statement on bioethics. Why do health professionals not speak out? Removing the wrong organ at surgery. Bioethics on the Internet. A philosophical view on euthanasia. Organs for transplantation: demand vs supply Scientific ethics in India
REVIEWS
Scalpeling medical ethics. Special issue of Humanscape 1997; 4: 1-42 The gravest show on earth: America in the age of AIDS. (Burkett Elinor) Diagnosis of occupational diseases (Murlidhar V, Kanhere Vijay) Impairments, disabilities and their assessment (Murlidhar Veena, Murlidhar V, Kanhere Vijay)	Anil Pilgaokar Sunil K Pandya Sanjay Nagral Sanjay Nagral