Shakuntala A. Singh

The collaboration between academia, journal publishing and the biomedical industry has come to stay. We may rave or rant, but that’s the reality. The problem is how to regulate it so it’s win-win for all concerned. We suggest the parties concerned look to their long-term interests if they are, and want to continue to remain, […]

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

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

Abstract There is an alarming trend in the field of medicine, whose portents are ominous but do not seem to shake the complacency and merry making doing the rounds. The wants of the medical man have multiplied beyond imagination. The cost of organizing conferences is no longer possible on delegate fees. The bottom-line is: Crores

Abstract As things stand today, whether we like it or not, industry funding is on the upswing. The whole enterprise of medicine in booming, and it makes sense for industry to invest more and more of one’s millions into it. The pharmaceutical industry has become the single largest direct funding agency of medical research in

The Mens Sana Monographs was started in May 2003. It is two years since we set on this course. During this time, we have tried to set a comprehensive agenda for the monographs, tackling issues in mental health, science, religion and public health. An Annual which compiled the first six monographs was published in October

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

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,

Abstract 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 superspecialist 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

We are not here to do (only a little better) what the others do. We are here to do what the others cannot do because they do not have the idea that it can be done. – The Mother, Sept. 1961. We have great pleasure in placing the Mens Sana Monograph Annual 2004 in your