Indian Journal of Medical Ethics July-September 2004

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The latest edition of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 1 Number 3

Jul-Sep 2004) is available free on the web. Please click on the links below to

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Drugs for AIDS: new ethical challenges

Does public access to essential drugs threaten individual property rights?

Should life-saving drugs be treated as commodities or public goods? Two writers

examine these and related questions when considering the controversy on patents

and AIDS drugs. A number of concerns emerging from the HIV/AIDS epidemic are

discussed in this issue of the Journal. Our editorial outlines challenges posed

by the government's announcement of free anti-retroviral therapy in selected

states in the country. An article outlines some apprehensions regarding the HIV

preventive vaccine trials proposed to be launched in India shortly. A surgeon

with HIV describes how the profession treats even its own colleagues with the

virus.

Are unethical medical practices driven by the need to make more money or is it

more complex? A public health researcher argues that the importance of ethical

practice assumes even greater significance in an unregulated health care system

increasingly controlled by the market.

There is extensive documentation of the poor quality care provided in the

government's family planning programme. Reporting on a public interest

litigation on sterilisation-related failures and complications, an activist

describes a programme where women are coerced into being sterilised, treated

without dignity, and suffer serious, sometimes fatal, complications.

Our case study describes a common occurrence in public hospitals-the difficult

circumstances of patients and the choices that-doctors make.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Government-funded antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS: new ethical challenges

AMAR JESANI, SP KALANTRI, GEORGE THOMAS, SANDHYA SRINIVASAN

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123ed070.html>

ARTICLE

Access to AIDS medicine: ethical considerations

OMAR SWARTZ

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oa075.html>

Why life-saving drugs should be public goods

RACHNA KAMTEKAR

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oa077.html>

Ensuring quality of care in sterilisation services

ABHIJIT DAS

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oa079.html>

Political economy of medical ethics

RAVI DUGGAL

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oa081.html>

Ethical Issues in Psychiatry N N WIG

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oa083.html>

CASE STUDY

You cannot get five star treatment at two star rates

GEORGE THOMAS

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123cs085.html>

Tolerance of illegal practices

RAJESH MALHOTRA

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123cs086.html>

VIEWPOINT

Unmet ethical concerns of the proposed preventive HIV vaccine trials in India

JOE THOMAS

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123vp087.html>

Reflections of an HIV-positive doctor

DEODATTA GORE

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123vp089.html>

Cashing on a brand name

VIJAY THAWANI, K J GHARPURE

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123vp091.html>

LETTER FROM MELBOURNE

Euthanasia: a worldwide dilemma

JAGRUTI WAGHELA, JAMEELA GEORGE

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123le092.html>

DOCUMENT

Publication ethics policies for medical journals

SANJAY PAI

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123do093.html>

SELECTED SUMMARY

The Helsinki Declaration, 2000, and ethics of human research in developing

countries

BASHIR MAMDANI

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123ss094.html>

BOOK REVIEW

Pamper your patients SUNIL K PANDYA

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123br096.html>

Women and Medicine ANANT BHAN

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123br097.html>

From the press

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123fp072.html>

From other journals

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123oj098.html>

Correspondence

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123co101.html>

Activities report

<http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/123arbc.html>

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