Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Volume 5 Number 4 October - December 1997
EDITORIAL
Private coaching classes: a need fulfilled... or created?	Philip Abraham
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Relations between doctors	R. F. Chinoy
Biotechnology and medicine: ethical concerns	Rita Mulherkar
Fraud in medical research	Stephen Lock
Surrogacy from a feminist perspective	Malini Karkal
Surrogacy and human reproductive biology	Eustace J. de Souza
HIV and women - some thoughts	K. Raja Venkatesh, Sudha Seshayyan
Sponsorships for medical specialists	Ratna Magotra
'Evidence' based medicine: the need for a close look at the evidence	Yash Lokhandwala
LETTERS
Tuition classes in medicine	Ratna Magotra
Advertisement of consumer goods	D. S. Shrotri
Illegal blood banks	An obstetrician in distress
A look at the modern doctor who doctors ethics	R. F Chinoy
Urban medical practice	P .Thirumalaikolundusubramaniam, A. Uma
VOX POPULI
Medical practice in Delhi Transmission of hepatitis B Recycling AIDS among patients and rag- pickers Dubious pathology laboratories Where ignorance is not bliss Should a patient with AIDS be ostracised? HIV- AIDS continued Doctors drive AIDS patients to quacks Should the HIV- positive patient inform his wife? The painful story on paracetamol Toxic 'tonics' Another exercise in futility Recognition of hopelessly inadequate medical colleges Doctors who advertise
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Ethics and the world Genetic research Duty to warn Ethical aspects of the human embryo Active vs passive euthanasia Elizabeth Kubler- Ross Some gems in consent forms
REVIEWS
Intractable neurological disorders: Human genome research and society (Fujiki Norio, Macer Darryl RJ) Bioethics in high schools in Australia, Japan and New Zealand (Macer Darryl RJ, Asada Yukiko, Tsuzuki Miho, Akiyama Shiro, Mater Nobuko Y) A handbook of the Department of Anatomy, Seth G. S. Medical College, Parel, Mumbai (Anonymous)	Ajay Naik Ajay Naik Sunil K. Pandya
FINANCIAL REPORT
From survival to stability: 1996-1997