The stethoscope once defined the physician. Today, it shares symbolic space with something more elusive: data. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and predictive algorithms are reshaping healthcare systems around the world. AI promises increased diagnos...
With online information at their fingertips, patients increasingly present with self-diagnoses — a trend that both empowers and complicates care. Many clinicians react with dismissal, seeing such behaviour as a challenge to their expertise. But is it ethical to dis...
Jinee Lokaneeta, Zeba Sikora. Magistrates & Constitutional Protections: An ethnographic study of first production and remand in Delhi courts. New Delhi: Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi; May 2024. Online, pp 180 + Appendix pp XX. Available from: https://...
DNA profiling is considered a scientifically reliable tool for identifying perpetrators and exonerating the innocent. However, its role in Indian rape cases is generally regarded as corroborative rather than conclusive. Judicial scepticism stems from the likelihood...
The ethical imperative of public health as a discipline is being increasingly envisioned to advance the ideas of social justice, human rights, and equity. Research is a powerful tool to meet this end as it brings to the fore the socio-economic and political structu...
Background: Post-trial access (PTA) is an important element of any ethics or regulatory guidance document. It was first introduced in the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) in the year 2000 but has only recently gained momentum. The objective of this narrative review wa...
John Green. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. Ebury Press; 2025. 208 pages, INR 999, ISBN: 1529961432
Haris Qadeer. Medical Maladies: Stories of Disease and Cure from Indian Languages. India: Niyogi Books, 340 pages, INR 495, ISBN: 978-93-91125-75-2.
In the governance of healthcare, medical ethics is fundamental to ensuring transparency and protecting patient rights. Medical dramas are increasingly shaping public perception of medical themes, fuelling public debate on medical ethics. In this reflective piece, ...
Medical students encounter patient deaths throughout their training and tend to cope with death under the pretence of curing to fight off the imminence of death, rarely pondering the true meaning of mortality. This assumed numbness often makes them harsh, insecure,...