Medico Friend Circle Bulletin, 357-360, July 2013- Feb 2014

Contents? Social Discrimination in Health How to think of Discrimination? Why Casteism Persists Even in the 21st Century? Discrimination, Stigma and a Typology of Violence: Some Conceptual Reflections from HIV/AIDS Worknatomy of an Inhuman Form of Protest by Bhangis to Assert their Human Dignity against Social Discrimination Why did Satyam die? Caste Background of Health Professionals in India Invisibility of Caste in Nutrition Perspective Caste and Medical Education and Reservation Medical Education and Rural India: Reservations...a boon? A Snapshot of Health and Nutrition of the Ageing/Elderly Poor Discrimination in Health Care and the Structure of Medical Knowledge Ayush Medical Education: Reflections from History, Policy and the Field Addressing an Enduring Loophole in Medical Education: Reflections from JSS Animal Bites Care Program TB in Tribal Community in Uttar Dinajpur (West Bengal) in 2011 Kala Azar Outbreak in West Bengal Training and Education of Health Care Professionals: Indianization of Allopathic Medicine Diabetes Experience – a Pilot Study Homeopathy: Successes and Opposition in Odisha Homoeopathy in India: Practice and Perception Discrimination, Mental Health, and Subaltern Healing Practices An Exploratory Note on Discrimination and “Race” in Relation to Mental Health in the West MFC Convener Convenership: Sunil Kaul, Jennifer Liang, Raju Narzary and Shelley Dhar. Address for contact : the ant, Udangshri Dera, Rowmari, P O Khagrabari, via Bongaigaon Dist Chirang (BTAD), Assam 783380 Email: sunil@theant.org Ph: 094351 22042 (m) 03664 293803 (r) the ant Office: 03664 293802 MFC Website: