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April 22, 2021
In this commentary, I contend that in a context marked by a slow but steady rise in sexual liberalism around the ideals of female sexuality and desire, the pressure to remain virginal is manifested through a potent nexus of markets and moral economies associated with gender and intimacy. Drawing ...
February 16, 2021
Medical education in India is afflicted with a culture of abuse and workplace bullying of junior doctors and medical students. This abuse is often rationalised on grounds of so-called high standards of healthcare delivery. Poor standards of work sometimes get attributed to caste-based reservation...
February 16, 2021
Clinical trials are required in surgery to evaluate existing procedures and to assess the value of new techniques. Except for observational studies which are considered useful only to propose a hypothesis, all study designs require a comparator group. The randomised controlled trial (RCT) is reco...
April 22, 2021
The paradigm shift to a patient-centred pharmacy practice model has resulted in dramatic increases in the number and variety of ethical and other dilemmas that confront pharmacists in their routine practice. However, ethical problems may go undetected by many pharmacists in most developing countr...
February 16, 2021
The lack of adherence to the recommended rabies post-exposure prophylaxis guidelines by physicians during encounters with cases of animal bite re-exposure results in enormous avoidable economic costs, wastage of scarce resources, and is a significant but neglected health concern. The challenges e...
November 07, 2020
Dr Pernkopf’s Topographische anatomie des menschen (Topographical anatomy of man), in four volumes, was originally published in German. It had taken the author and his colleagues over twenty years to produce it, the first volume being published in 1937. It was translated into English in 1964. The...
November 07, 2020
A highly fatal emerging zoonotic virus, Nipah Virus (NiV), identified as a potential threat to global health security and declared as a candidate for bioterrorism by the World Health Organization (WHO) was first reported in the South Indian district of Kozhikode, Kerala, on May 20, 2018. Followin...
November 07, 2020
Health policy and systems research refers to the research conducted on the formulation, impact, organisation and functioning of health policies, and how to optimise the functioning of health systems and policies towards achieving health for all. There is emerging scholarship on the ethics of cond...
July 29, 2020
Prostate cancer is a paradigmatic example of the impact of technological change on current medical practice, because biological and radiological assessments appear more reliable compared to clinical examination. Thus, the prostate specific antigen blood-test is the key factor for patients’ follow...
July 29, 2020
The taking of oaths by medical students at graduation or other times during training have become common practice globally, particularly in the last century. While some use the modern versions of the Hippocratic Oath, other colleges encourage students to frame their own. Inspired by the Oath of In...