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July 29, 2020
This book is an important contribution to the understanding of public health ethics practice and has enormous relevance in the current times of Covid-19. Its contents will alert us to the everyday forms of violation of the rights of ordinary people while addressing various health issues that affe...
April 25, 2019
Seamus O’Mahony’s analysis and critique of the medical-industrial complex, including the enabling government regulatory apparatchiks and journal publishers, is relentlessly irreverent, fearlessly brazen, and all-revealing
March 05, 2019
Doctors in denial: Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort is a must read for medical students and residents, practising physicians, medical researchers, scholars, health science professionals, academic administrators, journal editors, and importantly, the med...
January 03, 2019
Hans Rosling, the Swedish physician, statistician, epidemiologist and TED Talk celebrity has a deep and intense connection to India. He studied public health at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in 1972. Factfulness is his magnum opus and his last work before his passing awa...
July 30, 2018
If I had to tell it again by Gayathri Prabhu is a dauntless memoir about a father-daughter relationship that is afflicted by mental illness. Set in the years between 1948 and 2014, the story moves in and out of Karnataka with Prabhu's survival endeavours, personal and professional. Along the way,...
July 13, 2018
An opportunity to read the memoirs of one of the most famous medical editors of our times, of one of the most prestigious medical journals of all time, was not something I could pass up. Thus, it was with glee and curiosity that I took up the job of reading and reviewing the memoirs of Dr Jerome ...
June 13, 2018
These books are the outcome of about four decades of research and deliberation on the subject by the authors, Dr Lopa Mehta and (the late) Dr Manu Kothari. Long known for their unorthodox outlook, and as erudite teachers and retired heads of the department of Anatomy at Mumbai's Seth GS Medical C...
February 09, 2018
"An epidemic changes your life, even if you are not ill" – say Kalpish Ratna1 in yet another interesting book describing the Zika virus disease outbreak that rocked the Americas in early 2015. Epidemics are important not just because of the suffering they cause, but also due to t...
February 02, 2018
All counsellors and psychotherapists experience ethical concerns and challenges in their practice. This book comes at a time when there is a lacuna in the field with regard to discussion of cultural and local issues that present ethical challenges in the practice of psychotherapy and counselling ...
January 18, 2018
Galileo's middle finger?! And how exactly is Galileo or his middle finger relevant to heretics, activists and social justice? The relic of Galileo’s middle finger, author Alice Dreger tells us, is preserved in Florence, Italy, placed pointing skywards – something which she has interpreted aptly a...