Sushruta on Human Dissection as Pre-requisite to Surgery

Sushruta: Father of Plastic Surgery

Today, we have high standard of plastic and reconstructive surgery. but it has gone through many milestones. The first earliest milestone is found in Ayurveda, the science of life since ancient Indian era. Shalyatantra, the main surgical branch of Ayurveda, which is a constant source of surgical knowledge till now. Various plastic and reconstructive surgical procedures are mentioned in Shalyata...

Sushruta: The father of surgery

BioSafaris: A rationale for educational software on human biology and health in pre-college as an alternative to dissection

We present interactive visualization software as an effective alternative to cadaver-based education to teach anatomy. Many laboratories in pre-college biology education still feature dissection of animals and do not reflect the exciting, web-available world. Teachers in focus groups describe that they are constrained by highstakes testing, contradictory curricular requirements, limited teachin...

Is nodal biopsy a pre-requisite to surgery in biopsy proven pulmonary adenocarcinoma in the era of PET-CT?

Background/Introduction Lung cancer management is defined by stage and accurate pre-surgical staging is fundamental. The PET scan has become central to this process, but the technology has imperfect sensitivity and specificity. In determining nodal disease in early adenocarcinoma there appears to be a particular dilemma. The different subtypes of adenocarcinoma as per IASLC/ATS/ERS histopatholo...

Governance and Metagovernance: On Reflexivity, Requisite Variety, and Requisite Irony

There has been growing interest in the past twenty years or so in the potential contribution of new forms of governance to solving coordination problems in and across a wide range of specialized social systems (such as the economy, the legal system, the political system, and the health system) and in the lifeworld (or, broadly understood, civil society). This interest is reflected in growing am...