Ganesh Singh
Ganesh Singh
Nazli Hossain,Sharmeen Khan
Nazli Hossain
Domestic violence against women is a global issue. An earlier report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, reported that injury caused by domestic violence was the second most common cause of death during pregnancy...
Accreditation of ethics committees: experience of an ethics committee [0.03%]
伦理委员会的资质认定：一家伦理委员会的经验报告
Ragini Kulkarni,Usha Saraiya
Ragini Kulkarni
Many ethics committees (ECs) approving clinical trials in India have got themselves registered with the Drugs Controller General of India as per regulatory requirements. However, there is still scope to improve their functioning. Accreditat...
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
Sarkar and Seshadri have presented an interesting paper in this issue on the ethical approach that a physician should take when faced with requests for faith healing (1). The paper describes four approaches that the physician can take. Thes...
Siddharth Sarkar,Hiramalini Seshadri
Siddharth Sarkar
Faith healing practices are common in the Indian subcontinent, for remedying physical as well as psychiatric disorders. Patients and/ or their family members often resort to such treatment, especially when dissatisfied with the usual medica...
Raffaella Ravinetto,Benedetta Schiavett
Raffaella Ravinetto
The Hippocratic maxim, "Do no harm," is a long-standing fundamental principle of medical ethics, encompassing both medical practice and medical research. Yet, not enough attention is given to the implications of this principle for sectors r...
Armin Ahmed,Afzal Azim
Armin Ahmed
A recently published article on corruption in Indian healthcare in the BMJ has triggered a hot debate and numerous responses (1, 2, 3, 4). We do agree that corruption in Indian healthcare is a colossal issue and needs to be tackled urgently...
Internet-mediated psychotherapy: Are we ready for the ethical challenges? [0.03%]
互联网心理治疗：我们准备好应对伦理挑战了吗？
Priya Satalkar,Shivanshu Shrivastava,Avinash Desousa
Priya Satalkar
Advances in information and communication technology have facilitated the development of online psychotherapy. This form of psychotherapy would provide the developing world with better access to professional mental healthcare services. At t...
Habibeh Ahmadipour,Mortazavi Nahid
Habibeh Ahmadipour
It is difficult to determine the real incidence of medical errors due to the lack of a precise definition of errors, as well as the failure to report them under certain circumstances. We carried out a cross- sectional study in Kerman Univer...