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A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
Peer-reviewed. Indexed in Medline, PubMed, The Philosopher’s Index, Scopus.

ISSN: 0975-5691 (Online); 0974-8466 (Print) RNI Reg No. MAHENG/2016/67188
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Building strong and equitable health systems is an essential measure of human civilisation. Yet, today, we witness the death by…
Research Articles
Myth and reality of “theory-driven individualised practice” in Ayurveda: Mapping…
Mayank Chauhan, Vijay Kumar Srivastava, Kishor Patwardhan
Gender awareness among the undergraduate medical students: A cross sectional…
Vemulapati Pragjna*, Vaibhav Shandilya*, Vishruti Pandey*, Katkuri Sushma, Aravind P Gandhi
Surfactants and the importance of informed consent: Nurturing culturally competent…
Priyanka Gupta, Vishwajeet Singh, Prince Pareek
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Book Review: October 11, 2024
Can machine learning ever be taught to reflect the uncertainty and cultural relativity of human values?

Brian Christian. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. 476 pages, ISBN: 9780393635829.
John H Noble, Jr
Letter: October 05, 2024
Plagiarism, culture, and education: Grounding the discourse in respect and creating space for unlearning

Every English lesson in high school concluded with the introduction of a new word, its meaning and its usage in a sentence. “Harrowing” was one such word, meaning “distressing”. “My grandmother told us many harrowing stories” was the sentence taught in class. This ...

Salik Ansari, Uma Kulkarni
Film Review: September 19, 2024
To Kill a Tiger: How to reclaim an ordinary life
To Kill A Tiger, Executive Producers: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling, Rupi Kaur, Director: Nisha Pahuja, Hindi, 2 hours 8 minutes, Oct 2023, Netflix release 2024
Usha Raman
Letter: September 18, 2024
The dire struggle: India’s unfulfilled promise to eliminate tuberculosis
In 2023, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), India emerged as the country with the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, reporting 2.8 million cases and contributing to 27% of the global TB burden [1]. Worldwide, there were 7.5 million newly diagnosed TB cases in 2022, marking the hi...
Prajna Anirvan
Book Review: September 12, 2024
Childcare and medicine in colonial India
Ranjana Saha, Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta (Routledge, 2023), 290 pages, Rs 1295, Hardback ISBN 9781032768243.
Kiran Kumbhar
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