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February 17, 2020
Article 15 of the Indian Constitution states that, “The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them; No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any ...
February 17, 2020
The Hindi film Kabir Singh glamourises misogyny, toxic masculinity, male chauvinism and glorifies an unethical doctor who has no restraint and no control over himself. Written and directed by Sandeep Vanga, and a remake of his Telugu film Arjun Reddy, it portrays an incorrect image of doctors and...
February 17, 2020
Rimpi Gupta, Editor: C M Francis, Medical Ethics as per
revised MCI curriculum. 4th edition. New Delhi: Jaypee
Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd; 2020, pp 220, Rs 295
(paperback), ISBN 978-93-89188-62-2.
Olinda Timms, Biomedical Ethics AETCOM companion for medi...
Olinda Timms, Biomedical Ethics AETCOM companion for medi...
February 17, 2020
Media reports abound on the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on healthcare practice. A voluminous academic literature also addresses industry’s grip on healthcare, with numerous articles in leading medical journals, and books with revealing titles such as Deadly medicine and or...
February 17, 2020
The book Full surrogacy now: Feminism against family by Sophie Lewis comes at a time when the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2018 in India proposes to replace commercial surrogacy with an altruistic version. While commercial surrogacy in India, with its array of private hospitals and agents, has ten...
November 06, 2019
In the last decade or so, Marathi cinema has produced a wealth of meaningful films, many of them focused on illness, health and medicine. While some are brutally real, others blend realism with enough dramatic content and glamour to reach a mainstream audience. Both have their uses. Smile, please...
November 06, 2019
In 1976, the Croatian-Austrian philosopher, historian and Catholic priest, Ivan Illich, later to be defrocked for his radical views, shocked the medical world with his publication Medical nemesis: The expropriation of health. Illich argued that modern medicine was one of the greatest dangers to h...
January 01, 2000
Aashiq Abu’s Virus is a film that chronicles the 2018 Nipah Virus outbreak in Kerala. It is a tribute to the ordinary people who came together to contain the contagion.
January 01, 2000
Laakhon mein ek, Season 2, is an engaging drama series providing an authentic depiction of the rural posting of an upright young intern, Dr Shreya, at a primary health centre in a village called Sitlapur.
July 18, 2019
That medical device companies have an equal, if not stronger, interest in making money than they do in helping the sick and injured— that pecunia primum (“first make money”) is more important than primum non nocere (“first do no harm”)—will come as no surprise to most readers of this journal. Tho...