There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...

Despite the rise of scholarly interest in maternal theory and observation, motherhood studies is a relatively new concern India which has started over last decade. Usually, concept “Motherhood” societal obsession with biological affinity associated dominant social mores around “sacrosanct” marriage. Scholars have tried to show difference mother, mothering motherhood. They included ‘non-biologic...

Abstract In this chapter, I will reflect on medical ethics after the Holocaust by focusing rights and responsibilities of physician to uphold bioethical values in society—which must transcend cultural, professional, institutional mores. Physicians can do so only if: (a) They are called back value human person physician’s primary duty his or her good. (b) acknowledge hierarchical structure educa...

Sociological and anthropological studies in India reveal that caste, class and gender in everyday life are both rigid and dynamic, but little is known about how they influence the survival mechanisms of women during ‘multiple disasters’, nor about how women negotiate with these structural mores to meet their cultural and biological needs. This is explored through the experiences of 12 women-hea...

Kaplan’s latest book picks up some of the ideas from his earlier writings on leisure and examines these in the setting of old age. In so doing, he provides a welcome addition to the sparse literature examining the relationships between leisure and the needs of the elderly. This paucity can probably be attributed to two main factors. The first is that leisure is not normally associated with ‘pro...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...