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October 01, 2005
Dental treatment aims to diagnose and eradicate diseases of teeth and gums, and to repair the damage done, providing better function and improving the patient's quality of life. All this needs meticulous planning of treatment and its execution. But this can test the patience of both doctors and p...
April 01, 2005
Sexual harassment is a serious problem for women workers. There is extensive anecdotal evidence indicating its pervasiveness, but it remains hidden by the veil of silence surrounding the issue.
January 01, 2005
Recent media reports – some on the sale of cadavers between medical colleges, and one of police intercepting an ambulance carrying cadavers – force us to examine questions on the law and ethics of cadavers for anatomical dissection.
October 01, 2004
The experiences of countries across the world have demonstrated the need for government involvement in health care. Due to the poor quality of India's government health care system, diseases that have declined in many developing countries continue to be common here. Studies indicate that governme...
July 01, 2004
The concept of property is usually understood as a moral and legal right to exercise exclusive influence and control over a material object. A person who owns something, such as a patent or medicine, can dispose of (or control access to) it without regard for others. Like and including patents, m...
July 01, 2004
Omar Swartz presents a number of good arguments in favour of treating the formulae for making human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other life-saving drugs as public goods rather than private property: ideas can be shared without being used up; the most effective use of blueprints for life-savin...
July 01, 2004
Female sterilisation is the mainstay of contraceptive methods in India. Every year over four million female sterilisation operations are conducted in the country. Like all surgical procedures, female sterilisation, despite being a relatively low-risk procedure, has its attendant risk and failure ...
July 01, 2004
Munnabhai, the don who takes on the mantle of ethics in medical practice in the film Munnabhai MBBS, is the quintessential response to the death of ethics in the medical profession. Munnabhai fails to become a doctor and rightly so, but he sends a message to the medical profession which ...
July 01, 2004
Psychiatry has been isolated from the mainstream of medicine; this has been bad for the profession and worse for the mentally ill. This article discusses some important ethical problems in the practice of psychiatry in India.
January 01, 2004
Laparoscopic or 'minimally invasive' surgery has become the gold standard procedure in cholecystectomy, fundoplication and adrenelectomy and has major advantages in appendicectomy and for diagnosis of pain/mass of unknown origin in the abdomen. However, because of its mass acceptance by patients ...