Some Issues in Women’s Studies, and other Essays
This theme monograph is called Some Issues in Women’s Studies, and other Essays. It has notable contributions on numerous issues in women’s studies along with some other write-ups.
Robert M. Kaplan, Editor-in-Chief, Health Psychology; Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor; Chair, Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, writes an editorial on, “Health Psychology: Where Are We And Where Do We Go From Here?”
Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Cardiff University, United Kingdom, writes on “Gender and the Human Genome.”
Jalil Safaei, from the Economics Programmme, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, writes on “Democracy and Women’s Health.”
J.K. Trivedi, Himanshu Sareen and Mohan Dhyani from the Department of Psychiatry, Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, UP (Formerly K.G. Medical University), Lucknow, India, write on “Psychological Aspects of Widowhood and Divorce.”
Dorte Hecksher and Morten Hesse from the Aarhus University Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Denmark, write on “Women and substance use disorders.”
Jayita Poduval and Murali Poduval from Departments of ENT and Orthopedics, respectively, Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal, write on “Working Mothers: How Much Working, How Much Mothers, And Where Is The Womanhood?”
Roy Sugarman, Director, Behavioural Solutions, Brain Resource Ltd, Sydney, Australia, writes in “Reflections,” on “The feminist perspective: Searching the cosmos for a valid voice.”
Anil Kumar Mohapatra, Head, Department of Political Science, Government Women’s Jr. College, Koraput, Orissa, India, writes on ‘Theory of Feminism and Tribal Women: An Empirical Study of Koraput.”
V. Balakrishnan, Professor of Gastroenterology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Cochin, Kerala, India, writes in “Musings,” on “The making of a physician.”
Sreedhar Krishna, a fifth year medical student at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, writes for MSM Poems: “Life on the British Ward.”
Shakuntala A. Singh and Ajai R. Singh, Editors, Mens Sana Monographs, Mumbai, India, continue with the MSM 2008 theme “Medicine, Mental Health, Science, Religion and Well being,” by writing on “Humanity at the Crossroads: Does Sri Aurobindo offer an alternative?“ and “Notes on a Few Issues in the Philosophy of Psychiatry.” Ajai R. Singh also writes a Topical Essay, “Straight Talk: The Challenge Before Modern Day Hinduism,” while Shakuntala A. Singh writes for “The Looking Glass,” “My Close Friends Lurk all around, and he Knows Not.” Ajai R. Singh also writes the MSM Book Review, “The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History- Editor-in-Chief Bonnie G. Smith”.
This issue is dedicated to Womanhood. See Dedication overleaf.
Editors, MSM