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January 01, 2016
Ethics in the field of environmental health deals not just with dilemmas involving individuals and groups of people, but also between people and the rest of the natural world, compounding the challenges. Resnik's Environmental health ethics is written to serve as a "starting point", "cal...
January 01, 2016
This triple-tiered 18-minute documentary explores the issue of sexual boundary violation (SBV) in the healthcare setting. SBV is a complex terrain and the evaluation of the incidents falling in its domain rely on the imperatives of objective, rational and legal decision-making as these incidents ...
April 24, 2015
Before commencing the review, I must point out that the author, Dr Nita Mukherjee (PhD), and her husband, Achintya, are good friends of mine. I was permitted a reading of the entire text of this book before it was published. My wife, Shubhada, and I were able to help Nita in a small way when she ...
April 24, 2015
The social, psychological, medical, and economic impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been globally acknowledged and widely documented in many countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, where prevalence rates of over 30% have been documented. Although the prevalence rates in India have rar...
April 24, 2015
Released in August 2013 and starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, "Elysium" is a science fiction film that explores political and social issues, with a special focus on healthcare, class, and justice.
April 24, 2015
The Marathi film, Dr Prakash Baba Amte: a real hero is the inspiring story of a doctor couple which has been working for the welfare of the tribal community in Hemalakasa, one of the most difficult tribal terrains in India, for decades and is still going strong. The two have worked tirel...
January 01, 2015
Mr. Barrack Obama, President, United States of America, has appointed a Commission consisting of eminent persons in the fields of medicine, science, ethics, religion, law and engineering to advise him on bioethical issues arising from advances in biology, medicine and related areas of scien...
January 01, 2015
Disability is a subject arousing much professional interest, research effort and analysis, and is the focus of expert perspectives yielding documentation and literature from scholars, policy makers, people with active engagement in the subject, and "subjects" with a vast variety of disabili...
January 01, 2015
Very rarely does one get to review a book that's a first of its kind! By bringing together the themes of domestic violence and feminist counselling, this book has filled a vacuum in the Indian literature on feminist interventions, in particular, feminist counselling practices. It emphasises...
January 01, 2015
This book adds to – or, to be more accurate – draws upon the enormous body of feminist writing that has emerged around the "ethics of care" after the publication of Carol Gilligan's path-breakingIn adifferent voice. Scholarship in this field has been conspicuously inte...