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From Conflict to Cooperation: Redefining Healthcare
Amar Jesani delivers the Annual Vijay Nambisan Lecture
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We live in an era of great challenges. One of them is the state of our health care system and the poor relationship between those who provide and those who receive health care. Never in the history of our country has this relationship been more distrustful and conflicting. There are daily reports of the exploitation and neglect of patients by doctors, coupled with exorbitant costs which large sections of our people cannot afford; there is the increasing incidence of violence against doctors to settle any grievance. None of it forebodes well for the future of health care in India.
Dr Amar Jesani will speak about the reasons behind this soured state of affairs and reason why a trusting relationship between the people and health services is not only essential but possible. It involves the participation of society as well as the givers of health care – not merely individual doctors but hospitals and associated medical systems. He will speak about countries which have proved this possible and expand on how it could be replicated in India.
The Vijay Nambisan Trust:
The Vijay Nambisan Trust was formed to perpetuate the cause of Humanities in its many spheres. The Vijay Memorial Lecture to be held every year is the first event to be sponsored by the Trust in partnership with the Bangalore International Centre. We feel that this talk about the importance of Ethical Medical Care by Dr Amar Jesani will be a fitting tribute to the writer and poet who was deeply concerned about societal values.
About Vijay Nambisan:
One of the best poet-writers of his generation, Vijay Nambisan is known as much for his poetry and prose, as he is for his reclusiveness. He dropped out of IIT Madras in his fourth year of engineering to pursue his love for the written word. He won the first All India British Council Poetry Prize in 1988, worked for a number of years in the literary section of The Hindu and published collections of poetry and prose in his inimitable style. He was married to surgeon and novelist, Kavery Nambisan.
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Amar Jesani
Amar Jesani is an independent researcher and teacher in bioethics and public health. He is co-founder of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and its journal, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (www.ijme.in), published since 1993, and since 2012 its editor. He is a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya University, Mangalore (since 2011), the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Karachi (since 2010) and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi (since 2017). He is a Member of the Institutional Review Board of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and International Ethics Review Board of the Medicine Sans Frontiers (MSF). He has co-authored and co-edited nine books, the last one was published in 2018: Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani (Eds) Equity and Access: Healthcare Studies in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press Pg 418
