Dharma and medical ethics.

Socio-spritual and Medical Ethics in Ayurveda: Its Relevence in Current Community Based Primary Health Care*

Background : India has rich unsurpassed heritage and excellence in every field. Following our concepts of bhootdaya, we can achieve our goal of positive health which is not just disease free body but healthy mind, soul and society as well. Objective: The main objective is to advocate and convince that medical ethics is not a new concept given by cosmopolitan / conventional medicine but its vivi...

Vedantic variations in the presence of Europe: establishing the Hindu dharma in late nineteenth century Bengal

We will offer in this essay an analytic overview of four texts from the second half of the nineteenth century which elaborated different variations on the Hindu dharma. These are Rajnarayan Basu’s Hindu Dharmera Sresthata (‘The Superiority of the Hindu dharma’, 1879), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Dharmatattva (1888, ‘Principles of Dharma’), Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay’s Sāmājika Prabandha (‘Essays on So...

Digital Dharma of Audio A/D Converters

RaneNote 137 © 1997 Rane Corporation Introduction Among the many definitions for the wonderful word “dharma” is the essential function or nature of a thing. That is what this note is about: the essential function or nature of audio analog-to-digital (A/D) converters. Like everything else in the world, the audio industry has been radically and irrevocability changed by the digital revolution. No...

Qos and Energy Aware

I-21: Medical Ethics Education: Advancements in Iran

Background: History of medical ethics shows a great attention toward morality and ethical behavior in practice of Iranian physicians. Traditional medical ethics with its conventional methods of teaching have been included in medical education by Iranian physicians over centuries. However, modern academic methods of medical education have also been introduced in medical schools. We aim to summar...