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174Coastal protection is crucial to human development since the ocean has many values associated with the economy, ecosystem, and culture. However, most ocean protecting efforts are currently ineffective due to the burdens of finance, lack of appropriate management, and international cooperation regimes. For aiding bottom-up initiatives for ocean protection support, this study employed the Mindsponge Theory to examine how the public’s perceived economic and cultural values influence their willingne…Read more
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25The 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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33Modern 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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12Guidelines, 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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Mathematics of Dhavalã-IIn Hīrālāla Jaina, Dharmacandra Jaina & R. K. Sharma (eds.), Jaina Philosophy, Art & Science in Indian Culture, Sharada Pub. House. pp. 2--300. 2002.
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19What shall we do about our concern with the most recent in psychiatric research?Mens Sana Monographs 1 (3): 3. 2003.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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19Psychiatric Consequences of WTC collapse and the Gulf WarMens 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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