The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) is to summon a special Executive Committee meeting at 12 noon tomorrow(06) to decide their future course of action against the assaulting of one of the senior members of Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) it’s registrar Dr.N.J Nonis . The Assistant Secretary of the GMOA Dr.Upul Gunesekera has […]
Psychiatric Categories as Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorder – Abstract
IN a penetrating ethnographic study of American psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann (2000) comes to a troubling diagnosis. At the end of the century, psychiatric practice, theory, and training are riven by a deep divide between two ways of understanding mental disorder. These orientations–the biomedical and the psychodynamic–have lived in uneasy coexistence for several decades, struggling to […]
Russia Not Only a Danger to Georgia
Russia’s military aggression of August 2008 will go down in history. Russia’s regular army simultaneously with its air and land forces were dislocated across the whole sovereign territory of Georgia. The Georgian city of Gori (the city where Stalin was born) was totally destroyed. Several districts of Georgia’s capital were bombed and all strategic military […]
Bihar turns to safe sex
Bihar residents are beginning to take to the idea of "safe sex". A fear of sexually transmitted diseases/AIDS, which has now gripped the state, perhaps, forced the masses to become more aware about their safety and turn to condoms, which were erstwhile considered a taboo among the uneducated populace of the state.According to an official […]
Iran: A Threat Ignored
In the dispute between the US and Iran it seems that the international community has shown little or no decisiveness. Iran has stated its dangerous intentions time and again yet most of the media seems too busy, too comfortable, and perhaps too confused to ask the hard questions regarding Iran. President Ahmedinajad has written an […]