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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 51
| Issue : 3 | Page : 317--322 |
Medical ethics in the Neurosciences
SK Pandya
Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Dr. G. V. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai - 400026, India
Correspondence Address:
S K Pandya
Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Dr. G. V. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai - 400026
India
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PMID: 14652429 
Doctors in India are heirs to a long tradition of ethics from their own forebears and from those from the West. This paper discusses ethical aspects of topics of relevance to neurological scientists such as brain death, neural transplant and whole brain transplant. Many other topics such as ethics in research, patients with AIDS, patients in a persistent vegetative state and euthanasia deserve similar consideration and debate.
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