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12The politics of belonging: socialization and identity among children of Indian origin in secondary schools of Durbin, South AfricaGlobal Bioethics 18 (1): 157-164. 2005.As the era or racial and ethnic separateness (apartheid) in South Africa moves further into the annals of history, the new era of integration is being steadily entrenched. While apartheid was internationally condemned and popularly opposed inside the country, a laissez faire type of integration is gradually replacing this system of social rigidity. Apartheid was an exaggerated form of political, economic and social insulation that forbade racial intermingling and sanctioned the existence of sepa…Read more
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26The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History - Editor-in-Chief Bonnie G. SmithMens Sana Monographs 7 (1): 199. 2009.
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25Straight Talk: The Challenge Before Modern Day HinduismMens Sana Monographs 7 (1): 189. 2009._Hinduism, as an institution, offers very little to the poor and underprivileged within its fold. This is one of the prime reasons for voluntary conversion of Hindus from among its members. B.R. Ambedkar and A.R. Rahman provide poignant examples of how lack of education and health facilities for the underprivileged within its fold, respectively, led to their conversion. This can be countered by a movement to provide large-scale quality health [hospitals/PHCs] and educational [schools/colleges] f…Read more
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53Psychiatry's catch 22, need for precision, and placing schools in perspectiveMens Sana Monographs 11 (1): 42. 2013.The catch 22 situation in psychiatry is that for precise diagnostic categories/criteria, we need precise investigative tests, and for precise investigative tests, we need precise diagnostic criteria/categories; and precision in both diagnostics and investigative tests is nonexistent at present. The effort to establish clarity often results in a fresh maze of evidence. In finding the way forward, it is tempting to abandon the scientific method, but that is not possible, since we deal with real hu…Read more
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31Notes on a Few Issues in the Philosophy of PsychiatryMens Sana Monographs 7 (1): 128. 2009._The first part called the Preamble tackles: (a) the issues of silence and speech, and life and disease; (b) whether we need to know some or all of the truth, and how are exact science and philosophical reason related; (c) the phenomenon of Why, How, and What; (d) how are mind and brain related; (e) what is robust eclecticism, empirical/scientific enquiry, replicability/refutability, and the role of diagnosis and medical model in psychiatry; (f) bioethics and the four principles of beneficence, …Read more
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34Modern Medicine: Towards Prevention, Cure, Well-being and LongevityMens Sana Monographs 8 (1): 17. 2010.Modern medicine has done much in the fields of infectious diseases and emergencies to aid cure. In most other fields, it is mostly control that it aims for, which is another name for palliation. Pharmacology, psychopharmacology included, is mostly directed towards such control and palliation too. The thrust, both of clinicians and research, must now turn decisively towards prevention and cure. Also, longevity with well-being is modern medicine's other big challenge. Advances in vaccines for hype…Read more
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20Humanity at the Crossroads: Does Sri Aurobindo offer an alternative?Mens Sana Monographs 7 (1): 110. 2009._In the light of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, this paper looks into some of the problems of contemporary man as an individual, a member of society, a citizen of his country, a component of this world, and of nature itself. Concepts like Science; Nature,;Matter; Mental Being; Mana-purusa; Prana-purusa; Citta-purusa; Nation-ego and Nation-soul; True and False Subjectivism; World-state and World-union; Religion of Humanism are the focus of this paper. Nature: Beneath the diversity and uniqueness of …Read more
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12Guideline Standardisation, Cost Effectiveness, Industry Needs and Conflict of InterestMens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 56. 2007.
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13Guidelines, Editors, Pharma And The Biological Paradigm ShiftMens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 27. 2007.
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15Emphasising prevention, developing therapies, complementing approachesMens Sana Monographs 3 (2): 15. 2005.
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19A discussion in the mind brain consciousness group 2010-2011: Let's study the structure that is the Very Raison de etre of our existence (review)Mens Sana Monographs 9 (1): 284. 2011.
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30In-plane and out-of-plane anisotropic magnetoresistances in La1 −xPbxMnO3thin filmsPhilosophical Magazine 83 (28): 3181-3191. 2003.
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Humber College of Applied Arts and TechnologyFaculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative LearningUndergraduate
Toronto, Ontario, Canada