title: "Hindu" bioethics?
abstract: The author offers a commentary on the question, "Are there Hindu bioethics?" After deconstructing the term "Hindu," the author shows that there are indeed no Hindu bioethics. He shows that from a classical and Brahminical perspective, medicine is an inappropriate and impure profession.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, USA.
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sarma
mesh_terms: D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D018596:Hinduism; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012070:Religion and Science