Bioethics activities in India.

The NBC and the bioethics movement in India.

Medical ethics education in India.

Since the late 1950s there has been an explosion in the field of bioethics. Gone are the days when problems were resolved by emulating seniors in the profession. Writing in The National Medical Journal of India, Dr SK Pandya laments that today “unfortunately the number of role models in the medical colleges is diminishing as unethical practices flourish and this adds to the frustration of stude...

Travelling bioethics

When there are no strikes or natural disasters, travelling usually is a pleasure. Some of us have returned from the annual conference of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in San Diego, while others have good memories of the 10th World Congress of Bioethics in Singapore last summer. But not only bioethicists are travelling, bioethics itself is as well, following the globalization...

Debating Euthanasia in India: A Review of the Proceedings at the UNSECO Bioethics Forum, Manipal

This review is about the discussion that followed my presentation at the UNESCO Bioethics Forum, Manipal. To contextualise, I begin with a brief account of the legal status of euthanasia in India, and then summarize the main argument of my presentation if the moral objective of euthanasia is to end a patient's suffering by ending his or her life in the best possible way, then the form of euthan...

Symposium on bioethics: empowerment of research participants/patients.

YRG CARE conducted The YRG CARE Bioethics Symposium (TYBS) in collaboration with the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Chennai, through the National Institutes of Health Project “Centrally Coordinated Bioethics Education for India” and the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), ICMR, Chennai on January 6, 2013. TYBS was co-...