Health and Dietary Supplements: A Sociological Study – Aishwarya Chatterjee
Consumption, in today’s world, does not simply involve the purchase of material commodities but also refers to obtaining and making…
Disability’s Discontents – Vinay Suhalka and Tannistha Samanta
The topic of disability has been recently in debate in legal and policy circles following allegations that a trainee officer…
Celebrations, Sugar and Children’s Health in Villages – Agrima Thakur
Bhisol is a small village on the outskirts of Thane district in Maharashtra. Everyone knows everybody here. When we visited…
Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India by Shailja Tandon (2023): A Review by Nupur Pattanaik
In Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023), Shalija Tandon examines the question of how…
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers Edited by Maya John and…
The Social Construction of Medicine: A Conversation between Cognitive Sciences and Sociology – Shirsankar Basu
Introduction Cognitive sciences are the study of the human mind and brain. It draws from a range of disciplinary perspectives…
Who Cares?: Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers edited by Maya John and Christa Wichterich (2023): A Review by Shiva Singh
‘Care’ being historically relegated to the sphere of the domestic and performed by women and other marginalised subjects without remuneration,…
Body, Health and Society: A Conversation with V. Sujatha
V. Sujatha is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS),…
Unhealed Wounds of Leprosy – A Photo Essay by Rohit Jain
Maruti Bondre, 70, feeds lunch to his wife Chandrakala, at the hostel for leprosy patients and leprosy-cured rehabilitated persons, run…
Doctor G: Story of Finding a ‘Doctor’s Touch’ – Mayuri Samant and Madhura Joshi
‘Doctor G’ a mainstream Bollywood movie directed by Anubhuti Kashyap and produced by Junglee Pictures (2022) portrays a young male…