| EDITORIAL |
| Effective public-private partnership in healthcare: Apollo as a cautionary tale |
George Thomas
Suneeta Krishnan |
| World trade, the poor and swine flu |
Bebe Loff |
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| COMMENTS |
| Should the Bt Brinjal controversy concern healthcare professionals and bioethicists? |
Sridevi Seetharam |
| Was the Gadchiroli trial ethical?Response from the principal investigator |
Abhay Bang |
| Impact of bioethics on patentability of inventions |
Vishwas H Devaiah |
| White coated corruption |
Vijay Mahajan |
| A farce called the National Board of Examinations |
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari |
| Diplomate of the National Board: inefficient parallel education |
Murali Poduval |
| Medicine, merit, money and caste: the complexity of medical education in India |
Abhijit M Bal |
| Financial incentives and the prescription of newer vaccines by doctors in India |
Rakesh Lodha
Anurag Bhargava |
| Vaccines: for whose benefit? |
Yash Paul |
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| DEBATES |
| Disability and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1972 |
Divya Bhagianadh |
| A legal precedent: reproductive rights of mentally retarded persons in India |
Renu Addlakha |
| Right to human dignity |
Ujjwala Mhatre |
| Concerns around the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine |
Memorandum |
| Cervical cancer screening and vaccination in India |
Surendra S Shastri |
| The HPV vaccine demonstration projects: we should wait, watch and learn |
Mala Ramanathan
Joe Varghese |
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| ETHICS IN ETHICS COMMITTEES |
| Assessing the social value of research involving minimal risks :who is accountable? |
Sunita Bandewar |
| Process, pitfalls and probity: sharing experiences on setting up and running ethics committees in India |
Anant Bhan
Prabha Desikan
S Swarnalakshmi
SP Kalantri |
| Use of blanket consent for retrospective research in academic institutions: need for scrutiny and integrating safeguards |
Anant Bhan |
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| SELECTED SUMMARY |
| HPV vaccines: separating real hope from drug company hype |
Gagandeep Kang |
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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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| FROM THE PRESS |
| MEETING REPORT |
| FROM OTHER JOURNALS |
| LETTERS |
| FINANCIAL REPORT 2008-09 |
| NATIONAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE |
