Category: Book Review
At last – a home grown ethics text!

Olinda Timms, Biomedical ethics. New Delhi: Reed Elsevier India, 2016, Paperback, 407 pages, Rs 400.00, ISBN978-81-312-4415.9 At long last we have a homegrown text on biomedical ethics that we can be proud of, and recommend to teachers and students alike.

Seeking to correct the psychiatric perspective
The book under review provides a detailed criticism of the contemporary practice of psychiatry. It documents the unparalleled extent of the use of psychotropic drugs, their unacceptable risk, the irrational disease categories, and the lack of a proper evidence base. It traces meticulously the dif...
“Good pharma” is possible!

Donald W Light, Antonio F Maturo. Good pharma: the public-health model of the Mario Negri Institute New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 288 pp. Hardback $ 95, ISBN 9781137388339. The world of innovation remains divorced from the world of clinical practice and the two intersect only when clinic...

Between families and doctors
Jerry Pinto's Em and the big Hoom is a rare foray, in Indian writing, into the world of the mentally distressed. Beautifully written, it captures the see-saw of intimacy and affliction in a middle-class family in Mumbai. The illness is not named or pathologised in the initial pages of the book, a...
Challenges in medical ethics
Ethics in medical and health care is a commendable compilation of essays that describe the ethical dilemmas and deficiencies in the healthcare scenario in India with the intention to sensitise all stakeholders to the urgent need for introspection and reform in this sector. It is a documenta...
Bioethics made comprehensible

Inspired by her grandmother’s admiration for women with varied skills, Ms Dickenson has developed into a woman of many parts. She has written prize-winning poetry and biographies of eminent women authors such as Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller and George Sand. Of American origin, she is Emeri...

Making blood transfusion safe

Multiple medical and paramedical professionals, right from blood transfusion technicians to staff nurses to doctors, play a vital role in making blood transfusion a safe procedure. The role of the donor is equally important because untruthful declaration on any point in the questionnaire will ...

Relevant across cultures

With the increasing complexity in medical care and in the doctor-patient relationship, it is important to keep in mind ethical issues in medical practice and their medico-legal implications. In this book, Prof Tay and Dr Leslie Tay deal with a variety of medical scenarios that are easily ident...

The ophthalmologist and the law

The complexity and tension in the relationships between the patient, the ophthalmologist, the optometrist, the optician and the family physician, against the backdrop of ever-progressing ophthalmic technology within the confines of the law, are palpable. This book authored by a lecturer in law...

Spotlight on grey areas
This book should be a part of induction for all doctors getting into emergency medicine, or any practice, so that they have a good start before diving into an"uncertain grey area". The best things in life are simple. The brilliance of this book lies in its simplicity and the common scenarios whic...
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