Nilanjana Bhowmick, How Not To Be A Superwoman: A Handbook For Women To Survive The Patriarchy, Penguin Random House India, March 2024, 240 pp, Rs 399 (paperback) ISBN: 9780143464181
Joanna Moncrieff. Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. Flint Books; 2024. Pages: 336, INR 1545 (paperback). ISBN: 9780750999336
This personal narrative discusses challenges faced by MBBS graduates in Kerala’s public healthcare system. Based on observations as a government medical officer, this essay examines a culture where professional skills and humane values are often overshadowed by a s...
In March and April 2025, the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), the Health, Ethics and Law (HEaL) Institute, and the Christian Medical College Vellore (CMCV) co-organised the 10th National Bioethics Conference on “...
The deaths of children in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh from cough syrup adulterated with diethylene glycol (DEG) have laid bare the gaps in drug regulation, from the manufacturing site down to the pharmacist. They have exposed, as hollow, the governments’ and drug ...
As public health practitioners with experience of working in conflict zones, including in the Gaza Strip, we felt compelled to write this Commentary. The relative silence of the international public health community regarding the ongoing mayhem and genocide by Isra...
The stethoscope once defined the physician. Today, it shares symbolic space with something more elusive: data. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and predictive algorithms are reshaping healthcare systems around the world. AI promises increased diagnos...
With online information at their fingertips, patients increasingly present with self-diagnoses — a trend that both empowers and complicates care. Many clinicians react with dismissal, seeing such behaviour as a challenge to their expertise. But is it ethical to dis...
Jinee Lokaneeta, Zeba Sikora. Magistrates & Constitutional Protections: An ethnographic study of first production and remand in Delhi courts. New Delhi: Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi; May 2024. Online, pp 180 + Appendix pp XX. Available from: https://...
DNA profiling is considered a scientifically reliable tool for identifying perpetrators and exonerating the innocent. However, its role in Indian rape cases is generally regarded as corroborative rather than conclusive. Judicial scepticism stems from the likelihood...