Q11. What is Maternity Benefit? Maternity Benefit is a payment made to women who are on maternity leave from work. Every woman shall be entitled to, and her employer shall be liable for, the payment of maternity benefit, which is the amount payable to her at the rate of the average daily wage for the period […]
Q1. Write a short note on Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act On the basis of the Shantilal Committee report submitted in December 1966, a medical termination bill was introduced in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and was passed by the parliament in 1971. This Act is applicable to the whole of India. This Act […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > Law and Medicine Questions 41 to 60 Q81 Explain Appropriate Authority under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act. The Central Government is empowered by the Act to appoint, by notification one or more officers as the Appropriate Authority for the purposes of the Act, for each of Union Territories. Likewise, […]
Q11. Write down important causes of prostitution Prostitution is generally defined as the practice of providing sexual services for money, but because it requires a buyer and a seller it can more appropriately be defined as the practice of exchanging money for sexual services Causes of prostitution Poverty and unemployment: Poverty and unemployment are seems […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > Law and Medicine Questions 41 to 60 Q61. What is therapeutic privilege and it is exception to which doctrine? Providing patients with information is fundamental to respecting autonomy. However, there may be circumstances when information may be withheld to prevent serious harm to the patient, a concept referred to as […]
Q1. Define Criminology. Mention various causes of crime. Definition of Criminology: The law Lexicon defines it as ” the study of crimes, their nature, the causes, detection, and prevention of crimes”. Dr. Kenny defines it as “the branch of criminal science which deals with crime-causation, analysis, and prevention of crimes”. Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act Advertisement and media are playing a significant role in our daily lives. Drug industries also promote their products using such unscrupulous methods, such as misleading the buyer. Many products are brought into the market without much research and data-based credibility. However, their advertisements […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > Law and Medicine Questions 41 to 60 Q41. Medico-legal aspects of road accident cases. A traffic or road accident is defined as an accident involving at least one vehicle on a road open to public traffic in which at least one person is injured or killed. The main cause of […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act Female Foeticide: Sex selection is any act of identifying the sex of the foetus and elimination of the foetus if it is of the unwanted sex. It is heavily biased against the female sex. Amniocentesis is the process used […]
Law > Medical Jurisprudence > The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act In India there are many health legislations e.g., Drugs and Cosmetics Act,1940, The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, Maternity Benefit Act,1961, Insecticides Act 1968, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and Rules 1985, The […]