 | Olinda Timms Adjunct professor - St Johns Research Institute, Bangalore Bioethics - Medical ethics |
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04.09.2017-30.10.2017
Permissive laws on Commercial Surrogacy in a Developing country like India will lead to Exploitation of Women
1. Document the Indian experience related to use of new technologies in reproductive medicine, in particular promotion of commercial surrogacy as an option for infertile couples.
2. Study the social, cultural and economic impact of permitting commercial surrogacy arrangements.
3. Discuss and develop arguments regarding the ethical implications of permitting commercial surrogacy, involving vulnerable women in a developing country.
4. Study the experience of the international community and regulations governing surrogacy.
5. Prepare a paper with a strong argument for prohibition of commercial surrogacy in India.
Dr Olinda Timms is Adjunct Professor at the Division of Health and Humanities at St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore.
An alumnus of Christian Medical College, Vellore, she specialized in Anesthesiology, and has worked as Consultant at Private and Mission Hospitals in Bangalore since 1987.
Her interest in the field of Medical Ethics led to a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a Post Graduate Diploma in Bioethics from the Indian Council of Medical Research. She is also Fellow in Research Ethics from WIRB, Seattle. Since then she has been teaching and writing on Medical Ethics and has numerous publications to her credit in local newspapers and magazines. Dr. Timms is on the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
In 2016 her book ‘Biomedical Ethics’ was published by Elsevier India, and is being used as a resource book for teaching medical ethics in Colleges across India.
In 2017, she was inducted as a member of UNESCO International Forum of Teachers (IFT) in Bioethics, and established a Unit of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at St Johns Research Institute, Bangalore. She has written the curriculum on Medical Ethics for the IGNOU BSc. course in Allied Health Sciences and is Adjunct faculty at CMC Vellore for Research Ethics.
Dr. Timms currently serves as Chairperson of the Institution Ethics Committee of Bangalore Baptist Hospital and St Martha’s Hospital Bangalore. She is a member of Unilever Institutional Ethics Committee and Ethics Advisory Committee of the Center for Child and the Law at National Law School of India University.
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