October 16, 2014
From a doctor's diary by Shri Gopal Kabra is a small volume about the size of the Indian Journal of Leprosy, and like the journal, arrived wrapped in a sheet of plain brown paper tied cross-wise with white string. It stared hopefully back at me from my table for a few days until my curiosity got ...
Navjeevan Singh
October 16, 2014
In this book, Dr SG Kabra aims at presenting the medical, legal and social dimensions of induced abortions. More specifically, he is concerned about the misuse, and even disregard, of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act by medical professionals as well as pharmaceutical companies. As a...
Shaibya Saldanha
October 16, 2014
The book was powerful enough. Disturbing in its examination of the human face of the HeLa cell story, Rebecca Skloot's book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took the bioethics world by storm, quickly becoming a must-read for all those engaged in the study of medical and research ethics. The...
Olinda Timms, Manjulika Vaz
October 01, 2013
Anand Gandhi's Ship of Theseus is a visual and intellectual feat, one that is able to ask fundamental questions about our relationship with our bodies in the modern world. The film reveals how the maintenance and management - under fast-paced scientific innovation - of the able body that...
Puja Sen, Vrinda Marwah
July 01, 2013
I had read Dr Ben Goldacre’s earlier book Bad Science, an excellent description of scientific methods, their use and misuse; but had hesitated to buy Bad Pharma when I first saw it in bookshops.
George Thomas
July 01, 2013
Making an honest and humourous film about prepubescent sexuality in a conservative Maharashtrian neighbourhood of the eighties is an accomplishment. Balak Palak ( Children and parents)starts when four excited kids break for their summer holidays and return home to find a curiously dour atmosph...
Anuradha Panchmatia
January 01, 2013
Vicky Donor, released in April 2012, is a comedy about the life of Vicky Arora, a young middle-class Punjabi man living in South Delhi, who becomes a commercial sperm donor. It is an addition to the look-feel-smell real genre of small films that are changing the face of Hindi cinema. When it was ...
Neha Madhiwalla
January 01, 2013
The world of clinical trials is ethically fragile. Huge amounts of money are at stake and a handful of people are privy to a lot of confidential information about the trials. This imbalance in money and knowledge sometimes results in an unholynexus. Known as insider trading, progress reports of a...
Rakhi Ghoshal
January 01, 2013
The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh University of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan, periodically uploads on its website videos that depict ethically challenging situations in a doctor’s life. Their latest upload is one titled “Publish or Perish”. The title is a ca...
Philip Abraham
April 01, 2012
The past two decades have seen a heightened awareness of and discussions about ethical aspects of the practice of public health. This book is an interesting addition to the repertoire of resource materials on public health ethics. The essays included in this edited version are proceedings of a co...
Vijay Gopichandran
