
The tridosha paradigm is foundational to Ayurveda. Ayurveda uses it to explain life processes, classify illness states, and facilitate therapeutic choices. The paradigm has an aspect that is heuristic and practical; it has another aspect that is purely speculative ...

Amrita Bagchi, Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services. Routledge, London, 2023. Pages 201. ISBN 978-0-367-732-7; DOI: 10.4324/9781003169475


From the late 1940s to 1991, the adverse effects of prescription drugs were primarily established through the publication of detailed case studies by doctors in medical journals. Subsequently, pharmaceutical companies would change the labels of medicines accordingl...

Background: Family planning programmes globally emphasise voluntarism and rights in contraceptive provision, shifting the focus away from fertility regulation. With the intent of measuring the policy-practice gap, this study aims to determine access to voluntary ri...
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