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Item The Story of Selvi and Gopalan. The Last Resort: Why Patients with Severe Mental Disorders go to Therapeutic Shrines In India. From the Book- Restoring Mental Health in India: Pluralistic Therapies and Concepts(2009) Brigitte SebastiaThe case study explores various pertinent questions pertaining to people with mental disorders and the therapeutic route their family members choose. Besides, it explores when and why religious therapy is chosen for treatment of mental disorders and place of religious therapy. Why people visit therapeutic shrines and reasons for choosing religious therapy. The case study also deliberates upon the practice of Psychiatry and history of various treatment practices for patients with mental disorders involving double treatment combining religious therapy and medicine. It illuminates medical pluralism, stereotyping gender question, religion and science.Item A Conversation on Sexual Rights in India(2005 (Reprint-2010)) CREA; SANGMA; TARSHIThe report is not India specific (albeit includes India as well) but documents various strands of conversations and diverse views, opinions, and voices around sexual rights. These conversations attempt to explore and conceptualize what do we mean by sexual rights and how various organizations and progressive movements by Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have engaged with the issue of sexual rights. Besides, it also highlights the increasing repression of these rights in the name of "culture" and by creating the binaries of "Masculine" and Feminine" and demonization and denigration of "Human Rights" as a concept.Item Chemical Odour Incidents in SIPCOT Industrial Area, Cuddalore(2004) G.K Amrithslingam et.alThe Study explores and provides conclusive cases of a range of illnesses related to industrial pollution and chemical odour incidents among the residents living in and around the SIPCOT industrial area based on their subjective experiences. The study recorded 36 different type of chemical odour and 30 health symptoms associated with them. The study found that Children in villages were more prone to frequent illnesses.Item Commercial Surrogacy and Fertility Tourism in India- The Case of Baby Manji(2009) Kari PointsIt is a dense rich case that shows the tensions between law (Inter-country), ethics, humanitarian values, technology, and private medical care specifically in new reproductive technology. It Raises many pertinent questions viz. What is a mother? What is a father? What does it mean to be a human? or a Citizen. How emerging technologies redefine these identities and pose ethical challenges.Item Evaluation Research on a Disability Rehabilitation Programme (From the Book- Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research)(2009) Neha Madhiwalla; Richard Cash et al.(Edited)This case study highlights moral dillemas and ethical issues in doing justice to findings vs. pragmatic considerations of resources.Item What Killed Annette Jean (From the Book Infections and Inequalities)(1999) Paul FarmerThe case study highlights structural violence, poverty and its connections with tuberculosis. It also shows inequalities in distribution and outcome of infectious diseaseses. It explores the disparities manifesting in biological form but are largely socially determined. The story also impels the readers to make sense of somatization, grief and suffering.Item Determining who Constitutes the Community (From the Book- Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research)(2009) Neha Madhiwalla; Richard Cash et al.(Edited)The case study raises some pertinent question such as who should actually represent a community? What should be an actual representation of a community and its voice based on which decisions can be made or interventions can be planned? What should be the inclusion criteria? Ethical Issues around mid-course corrections in research and Procedural justice.