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April 01, 2005
'Bioethics' stems from the Greek words 'bios' meaning life and 'ethikos' meaning ethics or mores. It encompasses moral issues in clinical medicine and medical research. This book attempts to present the Hindu viewpoint in bioethics.
January 01, 2005
Multiple factors - the increasing use of technology, paradigm shifts in patients' attitudes to doctors (and vice versa!), consumerism, litigation, and so on - have resulted in making the law an integral aspect of healthcare today. Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare addresses some of these ne...
January 01, 2005
Long-acting injectable hormonal contraceptives have been the subject of much controversy. Health activists have opposed them while most doctors and officials have supported them. The arguments made in this book by a feminist epidemiologist and health advocate are based on a critical review of abo...
January 01, 2005
Ask a group of medical students to name the country's biggest public health problem and all of them will mention the 'population explosion'.
July 01, 2004
Drs Aniruddha and Anjali Malpani wear many hats. They operate a clinic to help infertile couples. They have set up a library where lay persons can access information on any aspect of health and medical care. They write in a various journals, on a wide range of topics. This is their fourth book. T...
July 01, 2004
This book is an anthology of stories, poems, essays and quotations interwoven like a quilt to capture the essence of being 'a woman and a doctor' in America. It tries to reflect the sentiments of more than 140 contributors, who besides being women doctors are also daughters, wives, mothers, teach...
October 01, 2004
Mental disorders account for nearly 12.3% of the global disease burden, estimated to increase to 15% by the year 2020. Much of this increase is likely to happen in developing countries that are least prepared to deal with it. Due to paucity of financial resources and the time taken to train profe...
April 01, 2004
This remarkable book is a description of manic-depressive illness (the author prefers this name to 'bipolar disorder') related by a person who not only has the disease but is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. She is therefore able to look at her illness from both an objective...
January 01, 2004
Clay Carter, a lawyer who holds a none-too-well paying job, that of defending an indigent in the office of the public prosecutor, is asked to defend a teenager who has committed a murder. What initially appears to be a fairly simple, open and shut case of one street junkie killing another, turns ...
October 01, 2003
Bernard Lown is a pioneer in research on sudden cardiac death. He invented the defibrillator and introduced the technique of cardioversion. He discovered the use of lidocaine in treating ventricular arrhythmias. Very early in the course of his career Dr Lown shed light on the relationship between...