Category: Research Articles
Whither medical ethics?
Editorial note: Dr. Anantharam is a senior and respected consultant surgeon. His repugnance of the depths to which the malpractice of medicine has sunk has found expression in this essay.
The patient with AIDS – a response

The essay with this title' has asked several pertinent and important questions. I would like to add a few comments. The essay indicates that instead of expected relief, the patient encounters hostility, fear and rejection and asks why doctors and others behave thus.     

Ethics in human medical research: views of a…
As promised in the last issue, we feature an essay on ethics in medical research. We hope this will form the basis for meaningful discussion on steps to improve the current situation - Editor
AIDS and the Law : Opportunities & Limitations
Mr. Justice Michael Kirby is President. Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Sydney, Australia. He is a former member of the World Health Organisation Global Commission on AIDS. The address - from which excerpts are printed here with permission - was delivered at the International Cotlference on...
Hysterectomy in the mentally handicapped

An abridged version of the statement issued by Paryay. He is a group fostering hrrmane alternatives to hysterectomy in the mentally handicapped. We oppose the decision on hysterectomy in severely mentally retarded women in the asylum run by the government.

MOTHER vs FOETUS
The front page of the Indian Express on Sunday, 20 June 1993 featured a story on a pregnant woman, seriously ill with tetanus, admitted to the Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals in Bombay. The patient and fetus were being monitored in the medical intensive care unit and appr...
Medical ethics, the practitioner and orders issued by-the…
A short while ago, interventions were carried out by doctors (presumably under 'orders' from 'higher authorities') on persons competent to make decisions despite their protests. This raises the following issue: What does a medical practitioner do when the dictates of 'employers'/' State' co...
Journal of Medical Ethics
The Journal of Medical Ethics is published by the BMJ Publishing Group for the Institute of Medical Ethics in England.
Medical Ethics In The European Community
In the issue of Journal of Medical Ethics dated March 1993 (19, 7-12, 1993) Povl Riis of Denmark pleads for uniform standards for medical ethics in Europe. In doing so he makes several statements that are worth pondering.
A brief note on THE FORUM FOR MEDICAL…
Alarmed by the current state of affairs, a group of concerned doctors have formed the FME to focus attention on the need for ethical norms and practices in our profession. The FME fielded a team for election to the Maharashtra Medical Council. (Dr. Kamath narrates this story in our opening ...
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