| EDITORIAL |
| ICMJE statement on compulsory clinical trial registration: should Indian journals follow suit? | Gitanjali Batmanabane |
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| Impact of life-prolonging technologies on end-of-life care in India | Sunil K Pandya |
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| DISCUSSION |
| Issues in the care of the dying | S K Jindal |
| Socio-ethical issues in the deployment of life-extending technologies | Suhita Chopra Chatterjee and Sweta Mohanty |
| End-of-life issues neglected in India | Anil Kumar Rastogi |
| Issues faced by a hospice | S N Simha |
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| COMMENT |
| Day-to-day decision making as a physician in India | Milind Deogaonkar |
| Practicing medicine in India: some ethical dilemmas | George Thomas |
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| CONTROVERSY |
| Living donor liver transplantation | A V Srinivas |
| Response: Living donor liver transplantation | M Veera Prasad |
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| REVIEWS |
| An industry without borders | Divya Pamnani |
| How to catch a thief | Sanjay A Pai |
| Medical emancipation | Mridu Markan |
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| INTERNATIONAL ETHICS |
| Medical ethics in surgical wards: knowledge, attitude and practice of surgical team members in Karachi | B Shirazi, M Shahzad Shamim, M Shahid Shamim and Asif Ahmed |
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| SELECTED SUMMARY |
| The Terry Schiavo case: Possible implications for India | Bashir Mamdani |
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| BOOK REVIEW |
| Who bears the burden? Double standards in medical research in developing countries. By Ruth Macklin | Sunil K Pandya |
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| FROM THE PRESS |
| OBITUARY: DR A M PAI |
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| CORRESPONDENCE |
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