Perceptions of gender and tuberculosis in a south Indian urban community (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in India advocating Directly Observed Treatment-Short course (DOTS) detects nearly three times more male than female TB patients
Prominence of symptoms and level of stigma among depressed patients in Calcutta (Publications)
A pilot study of 29 patients for research on clinical depression employed the framework of cultural epidemiology to examine illness-related experience, meaning, behaviour with a Bengali version of the
<em>Theileria annulata</em> sporozoite surface antigen expressed in Escherichia coli elicits neutralizing antibody (Publications)
Theileria annulata is an economically important protozoan parasite that threatens an estimated 250 million cattle with the disease tropical theileriosis. Development of a defined subunit vaccine is on
Gender, suicide, and the sociocultural context of deliberate self-harm in an urban general hospital in Mumbai, India (Publications)
Recognizing the complementary effects of social contexts and psychiatric disorders, this study clarifies the role of gender in suicidal behavior in urban Mumbai by considering psychiatric diagnoses an
Explaining suicide in an urban slum of Mumbai, India: a sociocultural autopsy (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health demographic mortality studies use verbal autopsies to identify suicide as a cause of death. Psychological autopsies focus almost exclusively on associated high-risk psychiatric diso