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April 01, 2010
Most human beings will do almost anything to prolong their lives or relieve themselves from the suffering of a disease. Others will do anything to exploit these desires by selling what they claim to be magical remedies even for incurable diseases.
April 01, 2010
Recent advances in the field of medicine in general and surgical specialties in particular have been mindboggling. These have greatly improved the care of patients. Problems which were initially incurable are beginning to be solved.
January 01, 2010
The recent controversy on the efforts made by the Medical Council of India and the government of India to bring transparency in medical education highlights the urgent need for reforms in this area.
July 01, 2001
This refers to the article 'Brain death and our transplantlaw' by Sunil K Pandya in which Dr Pandya concludes by saying we need a separate law which defines brain death clearly, and this definition must supersede the older definition of cardiopulmonary death.
July 01, 2001
It has been correctly pointed out by Harsha Deshmukh inher article Cadaver transplants: ground realities that very few cadaver transplants have been performed even after the Human Organs Act 1994 removed a major legal hurdle by recognising brain death.
July 01, 2001
Itake strong exception to your statement in the editorial. You have written, "As medical education became commercialised, the alliance between corrupt medical council members and politician owners of capitation fee-based private medical colleges destroyed the profession's ethical fabric."
July 01, 2001
The debate on trade in kidneys for economic gain has become polarised between those who do not view this as different from any other economic gain (those not attaching any moral value to any economic transaction), and those who view this in the context of human realities, like poverty, that drive...
July 01, 2001
Iread with much interest the discussion on kidneytransplant and whether the sale of kidneys should be legally permissible, and narrate two of my experiences as a social worker, for the readers of IME to think about.
April 01, 2001
In their article on community-based research on induced abortion, Ganatra and Hirve provide a candid documentation of the many ethical dilemmas confronting those engaged in research on sensitive issues related to reproductive and sexual health and rights. The effort made by researchers to ensu...
April 01, 2001
The unspoken background of the debate on the ethics of doctors advertising is globalisation and how it affects the medical profession, whether it is their right to advertise, their obligation to provide information, their opportunity to earn foreign exchange, or their duty to provide care.