Category: Research Articles
April 01, 1996
Resident doctors in the teaching hospitals of Maharashtra recently struck work for well over a month. In this essay an attempt is made to discuss the pros and cons of such action.
Aiav Naik
April 01, 1996
Strike is a legitimate form of collective protest in a democracy. At the same time, the guiding principle of medicine is the alleviation of suffering. Thus the issue of whether doctors should ever strike work is contentious. Some have preached from an ivory tower and advocated against this form o...
Yash Lokhandwala
April 01, 1996
Clinical decisions by doctors faced with ethical dilemmas are discussed by medical philosophers in a very interesting manner. The principles underlying these decisions, and their interactions with the mental processes of decision makers have been discussed by Wulff et al.
D. S. Srotri
April 01, 1996
Most Indian hospitals have instituted such a committee principally for the purpose of checking whether proposals submitted for research meet established guidelines. Once this has been established, the researcher is permitted to proceed with his work and the committee turns to subsequent proposals...
Sunil K. Pandya
July 01, 1996
An evening in May 1986. I was strolling along Juhu beach. Suddenly, out at sea beyond the waves, I spotted a swimmer struggling for his life, his arms flailing above the water and his voice just audible as he screamed for help. I raced to where a little boy was playing with a fully inflated car t...
J. B. D'Souza
July 01, 1996
A pseudoepidemic of prostate cancer is sweeping the USA, with no real increase in the actual number of patients with this disease. The increase in the number of cases detected is largely because of the widespread use in the USA of a screening test - measurements of prostate specific antigen (PSA)...
Robert F. McCauley, Eugene D. Robin
July 01, 1996
My nephew, who works as a research scientist in a reputable medical organisation, asked me, 'What were the rules governing authorship of a scientific paper in your time?' 'What do you mean?' 'How did you decide who should be the authors of a scientific paper?' 'There are no rules. You decide ...
R. D. Ganatra
July 01, 1996
The aim of this research was to investigate and present the views of women in Denmark on the human genome analysis. Its basic argument was that women's views should be separately sought as it should not be presumed that the moral basis of ethical decisions, the applications, and the implications ...
Hanne Bang, Brigit Petersson
July 01, 1996
Medical ethics examines not only violations of individual integrity in clinical practice but also the sanction that available policies and legislation grant to questionable medical practices. The ethical issues in psychiatry are to be examined in the context of the liaisons between the practices ...
Bhargavi Davar
July 01, 1996
Indians, especially those from the middle class, fondly hope to see their children trained as doctors. As a result there is a great demand for 'medical courses'. Four systems of medicine — allopathy, ayurveda, unani and homeopathy — have been officially recognised. There is no restriction on the ...
Ramdas Ambulgekar