August 01, 1994
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...
Justice Michael Kirby
August 01, 2000
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...
Editorial Team
August 01, 1993
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...
Amar Jesani, Anil Pilgaokarl
August 01, 1993
The Journal of Medical Ethics is published by the BMJ Publishing Group for the Institute of Medical Ethics in England.
Editoral Team
August 01, 2000
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.
Editorial Team
August 01, 1993
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 ...
Editorial Team
August 01, 1993
Some large hospitals in Bombay insist that every patient seeking investigation or treatment should undergo tests to check for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Sunil K Pandya
August 01, 1993
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and Judgment, this oath and this indenture; to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents: to make him pa...
Editorial Team
November 01, 1993
I saw a friend of mine, a consultant, earning a hundred rupees from a patient. He placed sixty rupees into the ever willing hands of the local general practitioner (G. P.) who had brought the patient to him with a diagnosis of 'chronic appendicitis'. The G. P. instructed my friend to get a ...
Dr. V Murlidhar