About the book
“Dr Amitav Banerjee has a knack of conveying seemingly complex public health messages in a lucid manner, understandable and appealing to experts as well as to the layperson. His writings are gripping, like a story, while at the same time educating the reader on subtle issues with apt analogies. This collection of his writings is a treatise for posterity and essential reading if we are not to repeat the mistakes of the past.” Dr Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
It is indeed refreshing to go through the well-written essays, enriched with wits and humour from an erudite and distinguished personality who enjoys a robust experience on the nuances of public health in our country. He has rightly drawn our attention to the ‘politicisation, corruption and suppression of science’ by the big pharma and tech companies, thus making us forget the golden principles of ‘evolutionary biology’. The readers will certainly realise that clarity and perception arise when the ‘third eye’ opens up, for it symbolises a state of enlightenment. Dr Amitav Banerjee is a rare bird to see in our modern medical parlour who can dispel the illusion of control with his lucid writings and fascinating evidence. He has also exposed the ‘cracks in our public health and regulatory systems’ so eloquently that one will realise how not to meddle with a socio-medical issue. Dr Sthabir Dasgupta, a Kolkata-based cancer practitioner and writer.
About the author
Dr Amitav Banerjee, MD is currently Professor and Head of Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune. He has specialised in Public Health and is a post-doctoral in Epidemiology with over 20 years’experience as a field epidemiologist in the Indian Armed Forces. He also headed the Mobile Epidemic Investigation Team at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune from 2000 to 2004 during which period he investigated outbreaks of pneumonia, rubella, typhoid, food poisoning, hepatitis in different parts of the country. During his military service he was also awarded for his work on Tribal Malaria and received a best paper award for a published paper on outbreak of Hepatitis E.
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