Dr Ratna Magotra, Whispers of the HEART — Not Just a Surgeon, Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 328 Pages, Rs 800 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-81-963629-0-4
Introduction: Health insurance coverage can serve as protection against catastrophic health expenditures. Section 21 (4) of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (MHCA) mandates insurance coverage for mental illness to be on par with that for physical illness. Despite th...
Allen L Tran, A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety. University of California Press; 2023.Pages:196, INR 2323 (paperback) ISBN: 9780520392168
This case study discusses the ethical challenges encountered by a primary care team in managing a 17-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes in a socio-economically deprived tribal area. The case highlights critical issues such as justice in access to essential medicine...
On December 8, 2018, I received a mail from Richard Cash with two attached PDFs; one on the history of the development of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT); and the second, a recent commentary from The Lancet commemorating 50 years of ORT.
It takes a certain kind of confidence in your craft, and gumption as a theatre maker, to begin your play with a long sequence miming a strip tease, fully clothed, in absolute silence. The audience is rapt, almost transfixed in that eerie silence. It is clear that J...
Background: Sexual harassment (SH) and Gender discrimination (GD) faced by medical students have been neglected areas of study in India. Only a few recent studies could be found, despite frequent media reports on SH and GD. This study aimed to assess the attitudes...
Background: Misconduct in the publication of research articles is a serious concern for the scientific community. This study was conducted with the objective to assess various reasons for retraction of clinical research articles published in PubMed indexed journals...
Brian Christian. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. 476 pages, ISBN: 9780393635829.
Every English lesson in high school concluded with the introduction of a new word, its meaning and its usage in a sentence. “Harrowing” was one such word, meaning “distressing”. “My grandmother told us many harrowing stories” was the sentence taught in class. This ...