The stethoscope once defined the physician. Today, it shares symbolic space with something more elusive: data. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and predictive algorithms are reshaping healthcare systems around the world. AI promises increased diagnos...

With online information at their fingertips, patients increasingly present with self-diagnoses — a trend that both empowers and complicates care. Many clinicians react with dismissal, seeing such behaviour as a challenge to their expertise. But is it ethical to dis...

Jinee Lokaneeta, Zeba Sikora. Magistrates & Constitutional Protections: An ethnographic study of first production and remand in Delhi courts. New Delhi: Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi; May 2024. Online, pp 180 + Appendix pp XX. Available from: https://...

DNA profiling is considered a scientifically reliable tool for identifying perpetrators and exonerating the innocent. However, its role in Indian rape cases is generally regarded as corroborative rather than conclusive. Judicial scepticism stems from the likelihood...

The ethical imperative of public health as a discipline is being increasingly envisioned to advance the ideas of social justice, human rights, and equity. Research is a powerful tool to meet this end as it brings to the fore the socio-economic and political structu...