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Insurance coverage for mental illness: A review through a lens of bioethics and the MHCA, 2017

Introduction: Health insurance coverage can serve as protection against catastrophic health expenditures. Section 21 (4) of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (MHCA) mandates insurance coverage for mental illness to be on par with that for physical illness. Despite th...

In search of the self: Turbulence in neoliberal Vietnam

Allen L Tran, A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety. University of California Press; 2023.Pages:196, INR 2323 (paperback) ISBN: 9780520392168

Managing an adolescent with Type 1 Diabetes and socioeconomic deprivation in a remote primary care setting — Ethical challenges

This case study discusses the ethical challenges encountered by a primary care team in managing a 17-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes in a socio-economically deprived tribal area. The case highlights critical issues such as justice in access to essential medicine...

Richard Cash

On December 8, 2018, I received a mail from Richard Cash with two attached PDFs; one on the history of the development of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT); and the second, a recent commentary from The Lancet commemorating 50 years of ORT.

Female, fat, and fifty: A review of Jyoti Dogra’s play Maas

It takes a certain kind of confidence in your craft, and gumption as a theatre maker, to begin your play with a long sequence miming a strip tease, fully clothed, in absolute silence. The audience is rapt, almost transfixed in that eerie silence. It is clear that J...

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