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marketing ethics and appeals to researchers of consumer psychology, business ethics, and public policy. Joshua Penrod is an …
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an alternative normative approach; namely, a sociology of bio-knowledge focussing on human rights. The article discusses … potential alternative bases for a normative sociology of bio-knowledge, before presenting the elements of the proposed human … of critical scholarship, particularly the emergent sociology of human rights, science and technology studies, Foucaultian …
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Social science studies of bioethics demonstrate that ethics are highly contextual, functioning differently across local …
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The paper examines the state of public sector hospitals, how they are being compelled to transform into profit churning units through reforms, and in the process alienating poor and the underprivileged groups from public hospital inpatient care.
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The paper presents an analysis of the reproductive health care services available to women in rural areas in Karnataka, and the various factors influencing them. Based on survey data on the status of Primary Health Centres (PHCs), and the availability of maternal health services, we analyze the...
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This statement following a workshop on ‘Hunger and Health: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue attended by a cross-section of India’s nutritional scientists, health professionals, public health specialists, economists, agriculturists and grass root activists draws attention to the...
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ethical issues? A national level consultation on ‘ Ethics in Social Science Research’ drew the active participation of … social scientists and explored the means and methods to institutionalize ethics review mechanisms to enhance ethical content …, Gujarat, the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai, and the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights …
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Modern epidemiology has, by and large, been based on a narrow model of biomedicine and behaviour modification. It fails to answer, for instance the following questions: Why certain populations are inflicted with certain kinds of disease, and why the access to its cure and prevention is so...
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At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula, the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down to three parts and annexed to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. About one-third of the territory went to Maharashtra, one-sixth to...
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On April 3, 2006, an independent commission on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), innovation and public health presented its report to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report was commissioned by the World Health Assembly, the WHO's governing body of 192 member states. The report...
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