Some questions relevant in the context of ethics in social science research are: Does social science have peculiarities … relativism in ethics? There is a need to developing an exhaustive understanding of ethics associated with social enquiries and …

in the practice of allopathic medicine in non-Western contexts. As an example, the authors discuss recent confl icts over …

This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social medicine as an academic discipline and its links … to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The author then analyses the possible future … directions open to the discipline in the Anglo-American context. A better understanding of the evolution of social medicine could …

While there is a considerable body of writing on ethics in social sciences in general, in India ethical issues need to …

an alternative normative approach; namely, a sociology of bio-knowledge focussing on human rights. The article discusses … potential alternative bases for a normative sociology of bio-knowledge, before presenting the elements of the proposed human … of critical scholarship, particularly the emergent sociology of human rights, science and technology studies, Foucaultian …

Social science studies of bioethics demonstrate that ethics are highly contextual, functioning differently across local …