Patients' preferences on breaking bad news: a cross-sectional study from Iran [0.03%]
告知坏消息的患者偏好：来自伊朗的一项横断面研究
Kourosh Amini,Sahar Meshkini,Farhad Ramezanibadr
Kourosh Amini
Background: The sensitivity and skill of care providers, especially physicians, while communicating bad news to patients can improve patients' acceptance of treatment and their emotional adjustment. We aimed to determine ...
Narcoanalysis is neither effective nor ethical: Response to Dr Harish Gupta [0.03%]
纳可分析既无成效又不道德：对哈里什·古普塔博士的回应
Jinee Lokaneeta
Jinee Lokaneeta
This is in response to Dr. Harish Gupta's letter [1] commenting on my editorial titled "Police investigation and unethical 'scientific interrogation'" [2] in the January-March 2023 issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. I had writte...
Nilanjana Ghosh,Limalemla Jamir
Nilanjana Ghosh
In the twenty-first century, there is still a taboo on frank discussion of menstruation in Indian society, particularly with men. This inadvertently widens the gender/equity gap in families and in society. Even men in the healthcare sector ...
Happy Indri Hapsari,Mei-Chih Huang
Happy Indri Hapsari
Researchers often neglect adolescents' willingness to participate in research. The granting of permission by parents is sometimes not in accordance with the unwillingness of adolescents. Relational ethics is the right approach to overcome i...
Siddharth Joshi,Veena Shatrugna
Siddharth Joshi
Over the last few months, established data systems in India have been the target of heated dispute, chiefly by members of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, ranging from the inflation numbers [1], to the sampling frame for...
Siddhesh Zadey,Parth Sharma,Pushkar Nimkar
Siddhesh Zadey
Recently, the data quality of the National Sample Surveys (NSS) and the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) has become the centre of discussion [1,2]. Two issues that have been raised include the overestimation of the rural population in ...
Medical professionals' resistance against the arms race and nuclear weapons [0.03%]
医疗专业人士对军备竞赛和核武器的抵制
Arun Mitra
Arun Mitra
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 78 years ago changed the concept of the impact of wars. The hope that the level of devastation would make the world think seriously about taking steps to give up the arms race and focus on human ...
Disclosure of intimate partner violence while studying positive mental health in wheelchair users: ethical dilemmas [0.03%]
轮椅使用者在研究积极精神健康时披露亲密伴侣暴力：伦理两难困境
Sonu S Babu,Ravi Prasad Varma
Sonu S Babu
This case study discusses the ethical dilemmas faced by the researchers when a woman with disability voluntarily disclosed her experience of intimate partner violence during an in-depth interview on positive mental health and resilience in ...
K P Karthik,K J Shajin
K P Karthik
"Confessions of an Ayurveda Professor", by Kishor Patwardhan, published in IJME, has set the stage for heated discussions within and outside the medical circles. It uses primitive philosophical criteria to argue that Ayurvedic principles re...
A case for testing and modifying theory in Ayurveda: Author's response [0.03%]
在Ayurvdya中检验和修改理论的案例：作者回复
Kishor Patwardhan
Kishor Patwardhan
This is my response to several recent criticisms that have challenged my views expressed in the article 'Confessions of an Ayurveda Professor' in this journal [1]. Some of these criticisms, such as the one by Karthik and Shajin, are directl...