This article explores the conditions and perceptions of daily wage work provided by Forest Department around Panna Tiger Reserve in Central India. Drawing on 15 months ethnographic fieldwork, it analyses forest within this context livelihood prohibitions, broader political economy precarious labour, village-forest relations district. Through different case studies, unpacks dynamics familiarity,...

Both the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 authorise the treatment and detention of the mentally ill. Their interface is often clear cut. After all, the 1983 Act formally sanctions and safeguards compulsion where it is necessary to protect patients or others. Individuals can only be detained for psychiatric, not physical, health purposes. And such detention can only take p...

BACKGROUND We examined the recent reasons for hindering antipsychotic medications during pregnancy in Japan. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the medical charts of all women who gave birth after 22 weeks' gestation at Japanese Red Cross Katsushika Maternity Hospital from August 2016 to July 2017. RESULTS Four pregnant women with mental disorders (three schizophrenia and one adjustment di...

Should voting be compulsory? Many people believe that it should, and that countries, like Britain, which have never had compulsion, ought to adopt it. As is common with such things, the arguments are a mixture of principle and political calculation, reflecting the idea that compulsory voting is morally right and that it is likely to prove politically beneficial. This article casts a sceptical e...

Previously we pointed out similarities between patterns of delayed incorporations of daytime stimuli into dreams and delayed memory processes in rats. In commenting upon this article, Roll argued that this reductionistic leap is unwarranted. We contend that it would be remiss not to make note of this potential connection, especially in view of recent major contributions of animal research to th...

Countering the claim that brain determination (or more broadly: causation) undermines legal responsibility, Stephen Morse argued repetitively that penal law is not founded on metaphysical free will but rather the idea that people are, generally, rational agents; causation, determination, or alleged lack of free will are no excusing conditions, unlike lack of rational capacity, compulsion, or co...

transvestic fetishism is having a sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing. this case report describes a 17-year-old male with transvestic fetishism who suffered from obsessive thoughts and subsequent masturbation as compulsion. he was managed successfully with fluoxetine. declaration of interest: none citation: usmani ma, gaur rk, azmi sa, gangwar sh. treatment of transvestic fetishism with...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) encompasses a spectrum of clinical symptoms characterized by unwanted thoughts coupled with an intense compulsion to act and to repeat behavior fragments in a ritualistic and stereotyped sequence. Obsessive-compulsive symptom due to brain lesions is not rare, but suppression of these symptoms after head trauma is very rare and we found only 3 cases in review ...