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April 30, 2023
Intersex people are viewed from the medicalised lens of having a “disorder” of sex development rather than a difference in sex development. This inherent indifference to diversity is also visible in LGBTQIA+ advocacy, as they were initially excluded from the Yogyakarta Principles promoting the hu...
January 10, 2023
Throughout the post-independence period, the state of Tamil Nadu has consistently performed better than most other states in several major healthcare indicators, including infant mortality rate and total fertility rate. At the same time, it has received praise for the deep penetration and robust ...
January 10, 2023
In spite of the Supreme Court’s recognition of transgender and LGBTQIA+ rights, there has been a negligent and insensitive attitude in India to the question of rendering respect to individuals of all sexual and gender identities. No framework for ensuring better protection from societal discrimin...
October 28, 2022
Religious beliefs may significantly impact the effectiveness of health policies. In this article, I analyse how Christian theistic beliefs about evil and suffering, in connection with belief in the afterlife, have unreasonable ethical implications in the context of African epistemologies. Further...
October 28, 2022
In a clinical trial registry, one determines whether a trial is registered prospectively or retrospectively by comparing the date of registration with the date on which enrollment started. However, in Clinical Trials Registry – India (CTRI), in addition, the top of each record is labelled with th...
July 23, 2022
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has replaced the erstwhile Medical Council of India with the intention of bringing about positive reforms in medical education and enforcing ethical standards in the practice of medicine in India. The NMC Act of 2019, under clauses 3 and 4 of Section 30, det...
May 07, 2022
This commentary examines the space-attitude-administrative complex of mainstream mental health systems with regard to its responses to decriminalisation of non-heteronormative sexual identities. Even though the Supreme Court, in its 2018 order, instructed governments to disseminate its judgment w...
July 23, 2022
In 20th century healthcare in affluent settings, generating awareness of the hazards of medication followed a rotten apple script. Find patients with a problem, find the documents that a drug company knew about the problem in private but denied it in public, mention the ghost-writing that concea...
May 07, 2022
The Menstrual Hygiene Scheme of the Government of India wishes to generate awareness among adolescent girls, and provide them with hygienic and affordable sanitary napkins. The scheme has been criticised for many reasons by various reviewers. However, we draw attention to a hitherto unaddressed g...
May 07, 2022
The correlation between creativity and mental illness has been at the centre of ongoing debates for quite some time. This has its roots in the Romantic era (late 18th to mid-19th century), when melancholia and madness were considered to be the signs of creativity and genius. Because of this, writ...