Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Volume 7 Number 2 April - June 1999
EDITORIAL
HIV - AIDS in India : the last straw	Santosh Karmarkar
DISCUSSION: Ethical issues in HIV / AIDS
Routine pre- hospital admission HIV testing	Bashir Mamdani
Should HIV- positive mothers breast- feed?	Wasundhara Kanbur
DEBATE
Injectable contraceptives for the Indian population	Kamal Hazari
Reject the injectables	Ravindra R P
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Autopsies in custodial death	Amrit K Patnaik
Private intensive care units in Mumbai	Herat R Parmar
The economics of health care	Ratna Magotra
Brain death, vegetative death and the RUB	Grant Gillett
MEDICINE AND THE LAW
Informed consent: legal and ethical aspects	Arun Bal
SHORT NOTES
Open letter to the director- general of WHO
ECT without anaesthesia : barbaric practice or recognised procedure?
Two questions, and a prescription	Lyla Bavadam
BOOK REVIEWS
Drug supply and use (Anant Phadke)	Chinu Srinivasan
Stillborn- a medical thriller (Rohini Nilekani)	Sunil K Pandya
LETTERS
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Role of health profession and services in violence	Simmi Sachdeva
Ethics in biomedical and social science research	Anil Pilgaokar, Bashir Mamdani
FROM THE PRESS
Hidden costs of AIDS obsession	Rupa Chinai
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Appeal
Positive life