Abstract: More than one lakh women die in India every year due to pregnancy, most of them being married adolescents. India is still grappling with the effort of reducing maternal mortality as it records the highest number of maternal deaths…
Abstract: The mainstream naturalistic approach to the human body and mind understands wellness and illness as complete and mutually exclusive states. The existential ontology of Martin Heidegger, on the other hand, is helpful in understanding being well and ill as…
Abstract: The mental health system, profession and care purely works on traditional treatment and rehabilitation using a range of controlling care, stigmatising labels and lifestyles, based on socio-political construction of mental health and mental illness. Despite the number of available…
Abstract: On being encountered by disease/illness we develop remedial measures to cope with it. These remedial measures may be seen as the operative health systems in a given culture. This, however, is not to assert that there is, and can…
Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the ideological assumptions on which the discourse of the cosmetic surgery is based, in a leading women’s magazine, Femina. Within the jurisdiction of Framing Theory, deductive content analysis is done to…
Abstract: It has become commonplace in the US to speak of the epidemic of autism, with approximately 1 in 68 children being diagnosed with the disorder as of 2014. Characterised by impairments in social interaction and communication, as well as…
Abstract: Though specific gender roles had been allocated from the beginning of mankind, ensuring the wellbeing or wellness of the whole family has always been largely the responsibility of women. The idea of wellness indicates the presence of well-being and…
Abstract: The H IV/AIDS-infected people are still the most marginalised section of society. It is necessary to society’s awareness about the connection between the feminisation of global poverty and the socio- economic and religious dimension of AIDS. Women are increasingly…
Just as light is more blessed when the darkness is severe, every morning was a New Year Day which I welcomed and celebrated in the dark uncertainty of todays. Even in the good old days I could speak of life…
Abstract: Hysteria is deemed as a woman’s malady. For centuries, it was believed to be a condition of woman’s illness in which the uterus was thought to be wandering. The attitude of society to madness in woman has a…
Abstract: Medicinal plants form the largest segment of the biodiversity used by indigenous people. Traditionally, women are the providers of health care within the home. An important area of woman’s involvement in traditional medicine is in the area of antenatal…
Abstract: The instrumentality of biomedicine in colonial empire has been the subject of many discussions. Western medicine or biomedicine was introduced in Travancore during the reign of GowriLaxmi Bhai in 1811 when the British resident was very powerful. Of all…
