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It has been frequently reported by the medical practitioners and public health workers that very often people do not utilize the medical and preventive facilities available to them. Social and economic factors are generally accepted as highly important in the multiple causation of disease. Therefore, health workers must come to understand such factors if they are to deal effectively in both primary prevention and cure of disease and other health disorders. ...
The outcome of a national seminar, the papers presented here are concerned with bioethics. Emphasising the importance of ethics in research and viewing ethics as a prerequisite for the protection of the participants under study, they focus on derivation of abstract principles and code of ethics from armchair philosophy and lack of cross-cultural analysis without taking into consideration cultural disparities. The study, undertaken in the light of anthropological ...