Publications

IN SEARCH OF DIAGNOSIS

Ed. Ashvin J.Patel

First published December 1977. Reprinted May 1985

First anthology of bulletin articles. Issues covered include Health Service Evolution, Medical Education, National Health Policy, Alternatives in Health Care, Population Problem, Drug Industry, Nutritional Problem in India, Protein Gap Myth, Community Health, and Tonics.

HEALTH CARE – WHICH WAY TO GO?

Ed. Abhay Bang and Ashvin Patel

Published October 1982

Second anthology of bulletin articles. Includes (Examination of issues and alternatives) Drug Issues, Lathyrism, Water Supply, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Problems of Nurses, Community Health Workers, Dai Training, Government Rural Health Scheme, Political Dimensions of Health and MFC debate on which way to go.

MEDICAL EDUCATION RE-EXAMINED

Ed. Dhruv Mankad

Published 1991

Medical Education Re-examined is an anthology of articles from the MFC bulletin and papers presented at the conference on Alternative Medical Curriculum held at Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh as well as at the X Annual meet of the MFC held at Calcutta. It looks closely at the training of doctors in India and makes an effort to present a comprehensive argument for a change in the orientation and content of the existing medical curriculum, providing some pointers to the direction of such a change.

THE BHOPAL DISASTER AFTERMATH: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL SURVEY

Co-ordinators : Ashvin Patel, Anil Patel, Daxa Patel, Nimitta Bhatt, Manisha Gupte, Padma Prakash, Mira Sadgopal, Marie D’Souza, Shirish Datar, Anant Phadke, C. Sathyamala.

Published – March 1985

DISTORTED LIVES : Women’s Reproductive Health and Bhopal Disaster

Chief Investigator & Coordinator: C Sathyamala, Survey Design: Anil Patel, Imrana Qadeer

Published – October 1990

A community based epidemiological study of the effect of the toxic gases on the menstrual pattern and pregnancy outcomes in women affected by the Bhopal gas leak disaster