Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara of Jainism is highly celebrated figure in the world for his ideas that revolutionized world. He was a realist thinker who tried hard to spread humanitarian values, human-centric teachings centred on making one’s life viable himself and others. This paper an attempt present brief one aspect Mahavira’s model individual well-being comparing it with ‘Capability-approach’ ...

Two decades of work delivering health care in poor communities provide a standpoint from which to challenge conventional doctrines in human rights and public health. These orthodoxies include the priority often assigned to civil and political rights over economic and social rights and a narrow concept of cost-effectiveness in public health policy. An analysis based on economic and social rights...

uman clinical research trials, by which corporations, universities, and research scientists bring new drugs, devices, H and procedures into the practice and marketplace of medicine, have become a huge business. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) doubled its spending over the past five years,’ while in the private sector the top twenty pharmaceutical companies have more than doubled their i...

These issues are real. Robots with lethal capabilities are being deployed in several operational theaters. And mistakes are being made. Partly they are due to “fog of war” and the difficulty for remote operators to have a good operational awareness of the situation on the ground. But, as anecdotal evidence in for example Singer (2009) points out, another reason is unclarity in command, control ...