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April 18, 2026
Tanisha Fazal, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War, Oxford University Press, 2024, 256 Pages, INR 2,626 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780190057473
March 05, 2026
Anuj Kapilashrami, Neil Quinn, Abhijit Das, Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities: Interrogating Community Development and Participatory Praxis. Bristol University Press; May 2025. 240 pages, INR 3231, ISBN: 978-1447361404
November 19, 2025
Peter C Gotzsche. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. 215 pages, ISBN: 978-87-85273-00-0.
November 12, 2025
Joanna Moncrieff. Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. Flint Books; 2024. Pages: 336, INR 1545 (paperback). ISBN: 9780750999336
July 17, 2025
Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea. The University of Chicago Press; 2022. Pages: 340, ISBN: 9780226819938.
October 11, 2021
Our generation read medical journals as we used to read telephone books or encyclopaedias: we extract whatever useful facts are in them as efficiently as possible, without considerable critical reflection. This tendency is exacerbated by the pressures of professional life: those who are in a posi...
July 16, 2021
Harvard-trained lawyer Jim Gottstein is the author of the new book, The Zyprexa Papers. It is a compelling, first-hand account of how a humble attorney from Alaska manages to expose the rot inside one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
July 16, 2021
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) emerged from the purest intentions. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) should examine what works best and which adverse effects emerge during treatment. RCT results should guide treatment, leading to widespread adoption of the best, safest treatments. EBM is now wid...
July 29, 2020
The book Translational Ayurveda, authored by academics in Ayurvedic practice and research, lays out the terrain of the current practice of Ayurveda, setting it in the administrative and policy landscape of India as well as some other parts of the world, and describing the consonances and dissonan...
July 29, 2020
This fascinating book examines the widespread practice of coercive interrogation by police in India. This kind of coercion is typically non-judicial in that it is not imposed as a sentence. Rather, it is embedded, deeply ingrained, social and political inertia which, in Dr Lokaneeta’s view, is a ...