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October 01, 1998
Once you start on it, this is positively not a book you cannot put down. Market, medicine... simply forced me to pause midway and turn elsewhere for relief, so strong was the revulsion induced by the four case studies that occupy nearly half of it. Whether it is the shameful conduct of d...
July 01, 1998
This collection of essays was I presented at a seminar organised on April 5 and 6, 1997, by the Dementia Research and Services Group; Bandra Holy Family Medical Research Society; FIAMC Bio-medical Ethics Centre, and the Aizheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Society of India in Mumbai.
July 01, 1998
When the National TB control programme was set up in 1962, it was lauded as one of the few research-based efforts with epidemiological data, longitudinal studies, effficacy studies. It was devised after identifying the factors that influenced health service usage, and linked to a model of primary...
January 01, 1998
Like a scratched gramophone record, the urban health debate repeats the same catchy tune over and over again. Three notes repeatedly play: the double burden of disease; economic modernisation with a trickle-down effect; and intermediate, community-driven technology solutions. Only occasionally is...
January 01, 1998
This collection of papers presented at a December 1996 seminar on the ethics of paediatric surgery provides food for thought in a profession where ethics is rarely mentioned, which does not see fit to include the subject in the education system. The collection does a good job of discussing the ra...
April 01, 1998
Rural India's health needs are supposed to be met by a network of primary health centres (PHCs) and sub-centres, the number and location of which are designed to cover the entire population. However, a look at the people's health profile suggests that services rare not meeting expectations.
January 01, 1997
While the stated purpose of the book, Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology by Laurence McCullough and Frank Chervenak (an ethicist and a gynaecologist) is to provide a practical approach to the application of ethics to clinical obstetrics and gynaecology, most of it seems to be applicable to US c...
January 01, 1997
Technology has made such tremendous advances over the past few years that it has been difficult for man to keep his sense of values intact in a changing society.This booklet raises some of these issues and includes euthanasia, abortion, in vitro fertilisation, organ transplantation and genetic en...
April 01, 1996
Alan Radley is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at Loughborough University and has several books to his credit. He has provided a comprehensive introduction to the important topic of health and illness. The book describes how people think about health, the part played by family, friends and s...
September 01, 1995
'Medical law is still a comparatively young subject. It has emerged in English law over the last decade or so as a distinct subject...'Â This volume, in its second edition, 'remains embedded in English law' and is, thus, most useful to those in Britain