Family Planning; Human Dignity; INDIAN Development; Family Planning Program; Muslim Community
摘要
It has been two years since the publication of Volume One of the Bioethics Yearbook, a short time in the life of an ancient civilization. Except for specific developments on several issues that will be reported in Section II of this essay, only a modest amount of reflection in bioethics has transpired since 1990 in Hindu thought or in Indian medical practice. Yet the same two years have been a long time in the life of a people in cultural transition. India has been torn by interreligious and communal strife which, although not new, has recently increased dramatically in ferocity and intensity. Strife between the Hindu and Muslim communities has engulfed most of India, and places that previously had been known for their inter-faith amity have been engulfed in flames.
