Bioethics in India:

Proceedings of the International Bioethics Workshop in Madras: Biomanagement of Biogeo-resources, 16-19 Jan. 1997, University of Madras.

Editors, Jayapaul Azariah, Hilda Azariah and Darryl R.J. Macer.

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1997; In press; 400pp.
ISBN 0-908897-10-3
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Contents (* = abstract only)

Bioethics For Enhanced Sustainability
Editorial Preface
Chennai Statement on Bioethics

Biotechnology and the Genome
1-29 1. The Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project and Human Genome Diversity Project - Darryl R.J. Macer
30-322. Identifying and Defining Levels and Limits of Biological Life, and Evolution - R.N. Sharma
33-34 3. Human Genome Project and Human Rights: A Conflict Between Scientific and Ethical Responsibilities - E.R. Martin , A.G. Bansode & P.A. John
35-41 4. International Ethical and Legal Regime over Human Genome Diversity Research: The Search for an Alternate Source of Beliefs - T.R. Sivaramjani
42-45 5. Ethical Issues in Molecular Detection of Presymptomatic Genetic Disease, Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetic Manipulation - T. Satesh & Y.R. Ahuja
46-48 6. Ethical Issues in Human Genetics: Anthropological Approach - S.A. Abdul Latheef & K.N. Reddy

Philosophy of Life and Death
49-51 7. Reverence For Life - D.S. Sheriff
52-56 8. Status of human life in/and foetus in Hindu, Christian and Islamic Scriptures - Jayapaul Azariah
57-63 9. The Fifth Kingdom - S. Natarajan & C. Arunachalam
64-66 10. Life: A brief philosophical review - George Joseph
67-68 11. Scientific and Spiritual Concepts of Death - V.R. Selvarajan
69-71 12. Life and Human Identity: An Anthropological Approach - K.N. Reddy & S.A. Abdul Latheef
72 13. Theories of Karma Yoga and Bhakti yoga as a part of the Philosophy of life - M.V. Subba Rao & T.P. Virajitha*

Biodiversity, Religion and Human Values
73 14. How do we Observe Bioethics in Biodiversity - H.S. Rose & Charan Joshi*
74-79 15. Sustenance of Biodiversity: An Action Line Through Bhagavad Gita - Dua Kamal Kumar
80-84 16. Bhagavad Gita - Role of Genes and Environment in Diversity of Behaviour - Dua Kamal Kumar
85 17. Humankind and Religion - K.K. Verma & Rashmi Saxena*
86 18. Need for the development of Social and Spiritual Ethics - V.R. Selvarajan*
87-91 19. Religion - Identity - Human Values - Indian Context - V. Balambal
92 20. Points of contact between Maimonides' Jewish Philosophy and Buddhism and implications for bioethics - Frank J. Leavitt*
93-96 21. Biodiversity and Environment - Indian Context - SA. Abdul Latheef & KN. Reddy

Medical Ethics
97-104 22. Persons at the Beginning and End of Life - John P. Lizza
105-111 23. Euthanasia: The Final Autonomy - TR. Sivaramjani
112-114 24. Societal Reaction Towards a Woman Cancer Patient - Vanaja S. Kumar & R.P. Surendra Kumar
115-118 25. Behavioural Malignancy: Alcoholism A Bleak future? - Vanaja S. Kumar
119-120 26. Prevalence of HIV in women in Chennai attending antenatal clinics - D. Sudarsanam & SA. Christian Shirley
121-123 27. Embryo Research - Relevance in the Changing Context of Social Medicine - DS. Sheriff, T. Manopriya & K. Asokan
124-136 28. Christian Perspectives In Medical Ethics - M. Gnanapragasam
137-143 29. A Critique of Bioethics with Reference to Abortion, Suicide, Euthanasia and Christian Response to the Right to Life - JS. Santharaj
144-153 30. Ethics in the Progress of Medical Science - AK. Tharien
154-155 31. Ethical and social issues in xenotransplantation - Darryl Macer
156-159 32. Ethics in Allocation of Organs for Transplantation in Humans - D.S. Sheriff
160 33. S.T.D. / AIDS: Social and Ethical Aspects - R.V. Ramana Rao*
161 34.Philosophy of sex - Sexoscopy and ethics - D.S. Sheriff*
162 35. Philosophy of Medicine - Dialogics and Medicine - D.S. Sheriff*
162 36.Family Physician and the Patient - DS. Sheriff*
163 37. Medical Humanism - B.M. Hegde*
164 38. Nursing ethics and dialogues between philosophical and religious ethics - Frank J. Leavitt*
165-166 39. Behind all that glitters - S. Vatsala
167-168 40. The Iodized salt : Myth and reality - S. Vatsala
169 41. Psychoteratogens: Right to retard? - T.S. Vijayakumar & Jayapaul Azariah*

Scientific Ethics and Animal Rights
170-174 42. Some Avoidable Issues in Bioethics in Relation to Laboratory Animals - G. Radhakrishna Pillai
175-177 43. Ethics of Resource Management: Place of Altruism as a Human Value - T. Ramakrishna
17844. Aspects of altruistic behaviour in parent pigeons - K.B. Shenoy & S.N. Hegde*
179 45. Animal Liberation Philosophy in social context of basic biological research - D.S. Sheriff & T. Manopriya*
181-183 46. 4R Concept and Ethical Consideration - D.Pandey, A.Dere, S.Shaikh, K.Jha, R.Kulkarni, S.Tagade, R.Chaure & A.Hajare
184-186 47. Ethical Considerations on the Use of Animals in Drug Research - Selvaraj Laxshmi, Mona Merchant. & Supraja Narsimhan
18748. Ethics: A guide or constraint to toxicologists - T.S. Vijaya Kumar and H. Devaraj*
188 49. Assay of toxins using cell cultures: an ethical alternative to animal experimentation - T.S. Rao*
189 50. Bias in Ethics? - K. Shanker & R. Ramanibai*
189 51. A Scientific approach to life - Anthropological approach -S.A. Abdul Latheef, K.N. Reddy & Subramanyam*
18952. Humankind in Predicament - S.A. Abdul Latheef, K.N. Reddy & Subramanyam*
190 53. Ethics behind the sufferings of aquatic animals on pollution stress - B. Sivaramakrishna & K. Radhakrishnaiah*
190 54. Bioethical management of working bullocks in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh - K. Prudhvi Reddy & K. Radhakrishnaiah*

Environmental Ethics of Large-scale Systems - Oceans
191-200 55. Sustainable Mariculture For Development - Management Issues and Environment Interaction in India - P. Nammalwar
201 56. Conservation and Management of Marine Biodiversity - S.L. Sasikala*
202-209 57. Mangrove, Bioethics, and the environment - C. Govindasamy, A. G. Viji Roy, C. Prabhahar, S. Valarmathi & J. Azariah
210-216 58. Environmental Implications of Disease Treatments in Aquaculture - M. Vijayakumaran
217-222 59. Present Status of Sea Turtles and their Conservation in India - M. Rajagopalan
223 60. Bromination as an alternative control measure in Nuclear Power Plants - J. Gunasingh Masilamoni, AG. Viji Roy, Arul Vasu, KVK. Nair & J. Azariah*
224 61. Bioethical interactions in relation with power plant design to avoid biofouling and biocorrosion - KS.Jesudoss, J.G.Masilamoni, Nandakumar, KVK.Nair & J.Azariah*
224 62. Temperature tolerance and Impact of Power Plant heated effluents on Megabalanus tintinnabulum - K. Samuel Jesudoss, Nandakumar, AG. Viji Roy, J. Azariah & KVK. Nair*
225-233 63. Bioethics of Health And Environment - S. Palanichamy
234-236 64. Economization vs Ecolization - J.P. Arokiam

Philosophy and Environmental Science
237-246 65. The Rights of Rocks - Frank J. Leavitt
247-249 66. A Philosophical Critique of Reductionism and a Plea for a Holistic Ethic - K. Joshua
250-256 67. The Moral And Spiritual Perception Of The Beautiful In Nature In The Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins - P. Titus
257-258 68. Stereotypical Analytical Concept of Life and Nature - R.D. Francis, E.R. Martin & A.G. Bansode
259-262 69."Dwelling in the fourfold" Heidegger on Science and Technology - James Kurien*

Ethical costs and benefits of environmental ethics
263 70. Environmentally compatible biopesticide for pest management in red gram - V. Padmaja, Gurvinder Kaur & K. Ramesh*
264 71. Chromosomal aberrations in fish inhabiting polluted ecosystem - D. Sudarsanam & A. Ouseph*
265 72. Environmental Conflicts with economic values - N. Rajalakshmi*
265 73. Effect of industrial pollution at Chembur on the Chlorophyll content of some deciduous trees - S.A. Salgare & Mohd. Anis*
266-267 74. Perception of Environmental Ethics of buffalo rearing on the banks of the River Cooum in Chennai, Tamil Nadu - Pamela Sahayadas and Jayapaul Azariah
268 75. Health care reforms in radiation workers: a cytogenetic approach - N. Gajendiran, Mary N. Mohankumar & R.K. Jeevanram*
269-273 76. Pollution load and health of the Cooum river system - Pamela Sahayadas and Jayapaul Azariah
274 77. Energy and Environment - P. Maruthamuthu*

Land ethics and ecoethical management
275-279 78. Land Health: The Bioethical Approach of the Foragers - Nirmal Selvamony & A.Rukmani
280-284 79. Health Ethics in School Environment: Towards Improved Accountability of Human Life - S. Gopinath, H. Azariah, N.S. Kavitha & K. Latha
285-287 80. Prospects for Bioethical Management of Mosquito menace and Mosquito-borne Diseases - P. Venkatesan
288-293 81. Ethical implication of industrial pollution on the ground water quality - Thomson Jacob, Jayapaul Azariah, Paul Appasamy & Gunar Jacks
294 82. Bioethical management of ecological resources with reference to Tirupur - N. Vasudevan*
295-297 83. Ecoethical Technology using Extracellular enzymes of Chrysosporium - N.S. Kavitha, A. Hilda, S.Gopinath & K. Latha
298-300 84. Hydrolysis of Oils and Marine Environmental Ethics - N.S. Kavitha, A. Hilda, S.Gopinath & K. Latha
301-305 85. Environmental Risk Caused By "Colorants" - K. Latha, A. Hilda, S. Gopinath & N.S. Kavitha
306-8 86. Ecological Dynamics in the East Coast and the Alternative Approach - Sunny Jose & Gilbert Rodrigo
309-311 87. Environmental and Human Imperatives of Pollution Recognition and Remedies - R.N. Sharma
312-314 88. Biologically Active Plant Extracts Against Euproctis Fraterna - M.S.Nalina Sundari
315-320 89. Ecology and the Future of Humankind - C. Govindasamy & Jayapaul Azariah
321 90. Environment and human health: Types of diseases and strategies - M.V. Subba Rao*
321 91. The neem plant, Azadirachta indica, an important medicinal plant - M.V. Subba Rao*
322 92. Shifting cultivation - a cause for the loss of Bioresources in Srungavarapu kota and Pachipenta mandals of Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh - M.V. Subba Rao, A.N.P.S. Madhavi, M. Aruna Kumari, G.S.S.H. Varaprasad, Y.AVASN. Maruthi & P. Sunitha*
323 93. Immunization of Cattle against Ticks - D.P. Banerjee*

Ethics and Development
324-349 94. The Economic Administration of Biogeo Resources in Urban Cities: A Case Study of CMDA) - A. Aruna Sivakami & R. Asha
350 95. Urbanisation and Environmental Sustainability - A case study in Madras, South India - R. Ramanibai*
350 96. A Post-Rio Blunder! are the poor to be saved first or Germplasm - Felix A. Ryan*
351-354 97. Vermiculture and vermicomposting of non-toxic organic solid waste applications in aquaculture - Arunabha Mitra
355-357 98. Production of Farm Vermi-Compost using Treated Tannery Effluent Water - Lavanya .P.G. And J.Venkatakrishnan
358 99. Bioethics and Planet Protection - Rolla S. Rao*
359 100. Bio-concept of Tamils- J. Ramachandran*
360 101. Sustainability Vs Survival: Dilemmas for the indigenous people of India - P.J. Sanjeeva Raj*
361-362 102. Is the grassroots cooperation on environmental health possible among people in conflict?- Frank J. Leavitt*

Bioethics Education
363-368 103. Need for a personal, scientific and professional Code of Ethics in Indian Science - R.N. Sharma
369-373 104. D'être an Ethical Scientist: The Art of being between the Devil and Deep-Blue-Sea - John S. Kennedy
374-375 105. On Medical Ethics and Medical Education - Annabelle Rajaseharan
376-378 106. Ethics in Medical Education - Pushpar Dhar
379-382 107. Literature and Medical Ethics - D.S. Sheriff
383 108. Attitudes and ethics in medicine - undergraduate medical student perceptions - K.P. Kochhar*
384-387 109. Bioethics and Educational Conflict: An In-depth Analysis of the Stumbling Blocks of Progressive Society - A.G. Bansode & E.R. Martin
388 110. Ethics, Education and Social Development - S. Rajathy and P. Thankappan*
388 111. The need and scope for Bioethics in teacher training - V. Usha Sri*
389 112.Towards an Adequate Basis for Bioethics - L.T. Jeyachandran*
390-400 113. Bioethics Education in High Schools: An Investigation in Tamil Nadu with Comparisons to Australia, Japan and New Zealand - Cynthia Pandian and Darryl R.J. Macer
401-403 114. Ethics - Suniti Solomon


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