Outside the established legal framework of intellectual property rights, countries have pursued multiple pathways to protect and promote traditional medicine. As Tibetan medicine is a late entrant into commercialization, the proposals to propertize generally fall within the rationale of existing sui-generis paradigms of Intellectual property. In this context, the article enquires the state of i...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is exceedingly prevalent and is recognized as a health priority by World Health Organization. The prevalence of domestic violence against women has been the topic of a number of previous studies, very few of which have looked into direct and/or indirect costs it imposes on the victim and the state. The current study seeks to determine the direct costs looking into t...

of similar trials in Wurttemburg are especially perspicacious on this point. In a completely different vein, Joel Peter Eigen's essay on insanity and English law during the period 1800-1840 also depicts a situation in which criminal or civil law could be tempered, a role that medicine would continue to play nearly a century later, as Barbara Brookes and Paul Roth found in their study of the Bou...