A Monongraph Series Devoted To The Understanding of Medicine, Mental Health, Mind , Man And Their Maxtrix
‘R’ really was special. Shouldered the responsibility of a business family at a tender age. Worked over inefficient estate management by elders, saw to it younger siblings were settled, sacrificed youth to bring up business and family. Enjoyed friends, drinks, driving. We were childhood buddies from the same town. I had met him a couple […]
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What are the qualities that distinguish a good editorial? Are there certain essential attributes? What should a good editorial do to a reader, and what not? These are some crucial questions that every editor, editorial board member, journal and its policy makers should decide for themselves and their respective publications. To that extent it is
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Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists share an inevitable, if rather uneasy, relationship. So very much like a modern marriage. Can’t do without it, can’t get out of it. Both sides contemplate divorce often. Think of separation by mutual consent. Even keep threatening as they rave and rant. Have secret, and not so secret, flings on the
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Medicine has to engage in battle on numerous fronts. To further scientific enquiry without giving up on the art of caring. To find more efficient methods of care, ameliorate disease and attendant suffering, without overriding human rights. To experiment, carry out clinical trials and refine processes of experimentation, without allowing human beings, especially from underprivileged
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What Medicine Means To Me is a first in many ways for MSM. This is the first Theme Monograph. It is also the first Monograph which has contributions from the Asian, Australian, American and African continents. Donelson Dulany, Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Illinois and Editor, American Journal of Psychology, writes on, ′What Psychology Means To Me’
In the loss of Prof (Dr.) S.G. Mudgal, the world of philosophy has lost an eminent torch -bearer of the classical Indian tradition. His benign presence, stately bearing, and benevolent guidance to all his students and peers in the field was something to be experienced. Words are inadequate to describe such an experience. His anguish
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I have to inform with great regret the sad demise of Dr Venkoba Rao, one of the senior most and highly esteemed psychiatrists this country has produced. His research work in psychiatry and medicine, as well as his work in philosophy and the human predicament, have been noteworthy indeed. He was a researcher and an
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You can read here a response to the last issue of Mens Sana Monographs Medical Practice, Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry: And Ever the Trio Shall Meet, Mens Sana Monographs, Mens Sana Research Foundation (2005), Vol II, No 6, Vol III, No 1-3, March – October 2005. ISSN 0973-1229. Please allow me to congratulate you
Silences IndeedSilences Allow whispers to Travel long distances.AndWhispers Make silences Come to life.AndAndIs a Whisper Between Two silences. Go to: Parliament Yesterday the crows gathered on our terrace for a meeting.There were at least five hundred of them if not more.And as they caw-cawed and moved about animatedly and argued and jostled and changed sides
We begin a Mens Sana Monographs Poems Section from this issue. Interested poets may send their work for consideration. They may be in verse, but preferably in blank verse. A fourline write up on the poet with a photograph must accompany every submission. You may submit not more than three poems at one time. While
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