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  Review: Brian Elliott on Stethoscope by Anna Harris, Tom Rice

  29 April 2023

  Reviewed by Brian Elliott (Wright Patterson Medical Center and Wright State University) __0__
  Stethoscope:
  The Making of a Medical Icon.
  by Anna Harris, Tom Rice
  Reaktion Books 2022. 191 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78914-633-2
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  The stethoscope is perhaps the most recognizable icon in medicine. Its early nineteenth-century invention by René Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec is well described by historians and articulated in Laënnec’s De l’auscultation médiate ou traité du diagnostic (…)

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  Cartoon: World Book Day 2023 | Jayaraj Vellur

  29 April 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: Worker’s Hands, Mexico, 1927 | Tina Modotti

  29 April 2023
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  Audio: Interview with the Human Rights Lawyer Hina Jilani

  29 April 2023
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  Video: Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Joseph Mankiewicz, James Baldwin and David Schoenbrun discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

  29 April 2023

  Play
  Hollywood Roundtable (1963) by US National Archives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u27coFlGXg

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 22, 2023

  22 April 2023

  * Does ‘Justice’ Come from the Barrel of a Gun? | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Atiq Murder and SP Malik Revelations | Arun Srivastava
  * Ticket Distribution by Parties in Karnataka Elections | P S Jayaramu
  * Does NHI Truly Measure Health Status | Chathukulam, Joseph & Buch
  * student suicides

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 22, 2023

  22 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 22, 2023
  Playing the ‘Rules’
  The Modi-led BJP Government is hard at work using the state machine to protect allies and friends and go after critics, fix public opinion via the news machines, censor out uncomfortable news, and influence the legal process to whitewash and clear names of those ideological buddies of the Hindutva spectrum who had been booked for crimes . . . ; to alter history books with the Mughal period of our History —all marked (…)

• Does ‘Justice’ Come from the Barrel of a Gun? | Arup Kumar Sen

  22 April 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On April 15, 2023, former Samajwadi Party MP and alleged gangster Atiq Ahmad (65) and his brother Ashraf (52) were shot dead by gunmen at close range in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), as the Uttar Pradesh police was escorting them to a hospital for a medical check-up. The whole shootout was captured live on television with the two brothers answering questions being posed by reporters. Reportedly, the shooting took place in front of at least two dozen armed policemen, and the police allowed the (…)

• Atiq’s Live TV assassination in UP Gets Big, Displacing Satyapal Malik’s Pulwama Revelations to the Background - Who Gained? Will We Know the Truth? | Arun Srivastava

  22 April 2023, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Notwithstanding the week-old assurance from India’s home minister Amit Shah to the delegation of Muslim leaders led by Mahmood Madani, president, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind that prompt action would be taken against the perpetrators of violence on the Muslims, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was quite ebullient at the assassination of two famous gangsters from UP, Atiq, and Ashraf and even went up to claiming that no mafia can spread terror in Uttar Pradesh and (…)

• Who would unravel the conspiracy behind Atiq’s killing? | Faraz Ahmad

  22 April 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  “Mafia, who were a threat earlier, are themselves facing threat” announced Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath proudly, smacking his lips with tremendous confidence and satisfaction, on the third day after former Samajwadi Party MP and a presumed mafia don of Allahabad was shot dead, handcuffed in police custody along with his brother Ashraf in a similar state alongside, accompanied by a police contingent, by three young men. According to a prominent English daily, the UP Chief (…)