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Mens Sana Monographs 

A Monongraph Series Devoted To The Understanding of Medicine, Mental Health, Mind , Man And Their Maxtrix 

October 2024

The Goal : Health for All The Commitment : All for Health

Abstract Primary Health Care was the means by which Health for All by the Year 2000 AD was to be achieved. And Health for All was possible only if All were mobilised for Health. This meant not just governments and medical establishments, but people themselves. Primary health care is essentially health care made universally accessible

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2. Pandora’s Box

The New Year’s Gift – Gandhi on Religion, Faith and Conversion, was educative, informative and thought provoking. Any prudent individual would certainly endorse the views expressed in the article. On Christianity and conversion there has been a lot of acrimony between the communities in India in the recent past. Certain questions remains unanswered. The learned

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1. Some Answers

(In response to the questions raised in the present Monograph, one of our subscribers Principal R.N. Sawardekar, M.A., of Dempo Trust Junior College, Panaji, Goa has sent in his answers. Hope they make interesting reading – eds.) Q.1. Gandhi would want us to be critical of our own religion but reverential towards other’s religion. Most

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Some Answers

(Page 70, raised a few questions which one of the authors (A.R.S.) attempts to answer. Take them for whatever they are worth. Hope they excite you to search for your own answers.) Q.1. What should governing bodies and funding agencies do to encourage original research? Ans. Stop funding replicative research to the extent being done

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Replicative Nature of Indian Research, Essence of Scientific Temper, and Future of Scientific Progress

Abstract A lot of Indian research is replicative in nature. This is because originality is at a premium here and mediocrity is in great demand. But replication has its merit as well because it helps in corroboration. And that is the bedrock on which many a fancied scientific hypothesis or theory stands, or falls. However,

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