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April 01, 2007
"There's a lot of money in this, you know," said the director of a contract research organisation while talking to me about a clinical trial about a year ago. Unwittingly, he had hit the nail on the head and had admitted the real – and the only – reason for his company's interest in clinical rese...
April 01, 2007
Given the advances in our understanding of human genetics, some scientists now argue that a new dawn is on the horizon, a dawn not blighted by heritable diseases and disorders. The molecular biologist Robert L Sinsheimer noted that a "new eugenics has arisen based upon the dramatic increase...
January 01, 2007
Annie Cheney writes about the highly profitable business of buying and selling cadavers and body parts in America today. The book begins with a shocking pricelist for body parts, fresh or frozen, varying from a high of $4000 for a torso to $300 to $350 for an arm or a hand or a foot. Transportati...
January 01, 2007
Palliative care is now established as a speciality in many advanced countries. Painstaking work some 30 years ago changed the connotation of what was then practised as terminal care. Besides cancer, such care now encompasses symptom control in patients with other chronic conditions like multiple ...
October 01, 2006
Heather Draper and Wendy Scott . Ethics in anaesthesia and intensive care. Butterworth Heinemann (Elsevier Science), Edinburgh, 2003, pp 243, ISBN 07506 53531
April 01, 2006
The author discusses whether the rapid changes taking place in the medical profession have made doctors redundant. The author is a paediatrician; his father was also a doctor. He describes medical practice as his father experienced it immediately after the Second World War. Doctors could treat fe...
January 01, 2006
This inspirational and fascinating book is about social entrepreneurs. The term "entrepreneur" comes from a French word which means "one who takes into hand". This is mentioned in the foreword written by Infosys founder Narayana Murthy.
October 01, 2005
Dr Groopman, a member of the haematogy-oncology faculty at Harvard Medical School, USA, has written many popular articles explaining intricacies of medicine. In this, his third book, he describes how people cope with serious illness.
July 01, 2005
Ruth Macklin. Double standards in medical research in developing countries. Published in the series 'Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics'. Cambridge, U K: Cambridge University Press. 2004. 280 pages. Paperback. Price not stated. ISBN 0 521541700 Dr Ruth Macklin is well known to readers of this jou...
April 01, 2005
Dr Goel is a senior registrar in the department of emergency medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He conceived this book during discussions with the late Mr Arvind Kothari of Paras publishing house. The book is therefore dedicated to Mr Kothari.