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    The uniqueness of Psychiatry as a medical speciality lies in the fact that aside from tackling what it considers as illnesses, it has perchance to comment on and tackle many issues of social relevance as well. Whether this is advisable or not is another matter; but such a process is inevitable due to the inherent nature of the branch and the problems it deals with. Moreover this is at the root of the polarization of psychiatry into opposing psychosocial and biological schools. This gets reflecte…Read more
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    Psychiatric Consequences of WTC collapse and the Gulf War
    Mens Sana Monographs 1 (1): 5. 2003.
    Along with political, economic, ethical, rehabilitative and military dimensions, psychopathological sequelae of war and terrorism also deserve our attention. The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre ( W.T.C.) in 2001 and the Gulf War of 1990-91 gave rise to a number of psychiatric disturbances in the population, both adult and children, mainly in the form of Post-traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD). Nearly 75,000 people suffered psychological problems in South Manhattan alone due to that one …Read more
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    Most clinicians and researchers are concerned with recent advances in psychiatry. This involves the danger whether something time-tested may get sidelined for extra-scientific reasons. That the pharmaceutical industry and super-specialist researcher may keep churning out new findings to impress audiences is only a partial truth. Research progresses by refutation and self-correction. Acceptance in science is always provisional; changing paradigms, frameworks of enquiry and raising new questions i…Read more
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    _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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    Ethical Obligation Towards Research Subjects
    Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 107. 2007.
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    Concerned Journals, Editors And ICMJE
    Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 90. 2007.
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    Obituary-Dr. A. Venkoba Rao
    Mens Sana Monographs 3 (2): 55. 2005.
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    Dr. Bagadia, Sir, is No More
    Mens Sana Monographs 8 (1): 3. 2010.
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    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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    Revised Template for MSM Submissions 2012
    Mens Sana Monographs 10 (1): 208. 2012.
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    What Propels The Pharma Industry?
    Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 121. 2007.
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    Welcome to the Board, Prof James R. Flynn
    Mens Sana Monographs 7 (1): 210. 2009.
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    Suicide is amongst the top ten causes of death for all age groups in most countries of the world. It is the second most important cause of death in the younger age group (15-19 yrs.) , second only to vehicular accidents. Attempted suicides are ten times the successful suicide figures, and 1-2% attempted suicides become successful suicides every year. Male sex, widowhood, single or divorced marital status, addiction to alcohol ordrugs, concomitant chronic physical or mental illness, past suicidal…Read more
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    Notes on a Few Issues in the Philosophy of Psychiatry
    Mens 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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    Guidelines, Editors, Pharma And The Biological Paradigm Shift
    Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 27. 2007.
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    Conceptual Foundations of Mens Sana Monographs
    Mens Sana Monographs 2 (1): 0. 2004.
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    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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    Template for MSM submissions
    Mens Sana Monographs 9 (1): 320. 2011.
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    Questions That This Monograph Raises
    Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 134. 2007.
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    Straight Talk: The Challenge Before Modern Day Hinduism
    Mens 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