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January 10, 2022
Reflective narratives on personal experiences, observations, thoughts and concerns were used as a method of helping medical students process the Covid-19 pandemic and their lives. This involved individual writing, anonymous submission, on-line group reading of selected narratives on a voluntary b...
January 10, 2022
Cosmetic surgery is defined as any procedure involving a change in the appearance or aesthetics of a normal anatomy where there are no congenital or acquired pathologies. The procedures that can be included under female cosmetic genital surgery are the following: reduction labiaplasty, vaginoplas...
January 10, 2022
Psychiatric labels of depression and anxiety have been increasingly employed to explain mental distress and illness over the past century. They have also been recognised as among the leading causes of disability. Psychiatry postulates neurochemical etiology and pathology, identifies clinical symp...
January 10, 2022
In this narrative, a teacher of physiology writes about her shifts at an out-patient fever clinic during the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from describing the author’s own struggle during her return to a clinician’s role, the narrative reveals the anxieties, fears, challenges and stigma faced by patie...
January 10, 2022
The code of ethical conduct for physiotherapy services must be compatible with the local culture. The ethical guidelines proposed here were developed through a literature review, focus group discussions, and finally a modified Delphi technique to achieve consensus after the data were analysed. At...
January 10, 2022
Reform of the abortion laws in favour of the well-being of pregnant women is one aspect of the removal of gender discrimination. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP Act) 1971, was a breakthrough legislation in this regard, as it reduced the number of unsafe illegal abortions. With advan...
October 11, 2021
As per the Magnitude of Substance Use in India 2019 survey report, over 57 million of the Indian population is in need of professional help for alcohol use disorders and around 7.7 million for opioid use disorders. The increasing demand for addiction treatment services in India calls for professi...
April 22, 2021
The Indian media’s reportage of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the State’s long-standing apathy towards low-income migrants and the structural neglect and violence faced by them in society. But how consistent were the country’s print media in reporting on this population group before the crisi...
July 16, 2021
Infertility is a condition that has an inherent cultural significance. In India, married couples with infertility face the brunt of speculations and certain demeaning identities are assigned to the women. Care-seeking options for infertility are deeply gendered. The availability of technologicall...
April 22, 2021
Limited data are available regarding institutional ethics committees (IECs) and their standard operating procedures (SOPs) in North East (NE) India. An attempt was made to study the profiles of IECs and the status of their SOPs in health research institutes of NE India. Fourteen biomedical and he...