Chhanda Chakraborti

• Ph D
• Professor (Full) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Studies on small and medium enterprises or SMEs in India are scarce. What little is known shows that there is a need to know more about this sector, specially on their performance on responsible business practices. This paper reports the findings on the environmental awareness and practices of some Indian SMEs, from a study conducted by the present...

In India, health inequality, rooted in structural elements of the public healthcare system, is a topic of much concern and discussion in research literature. However, very few articles have approached this persistent problem from a theoretical standpoint. This article addresses this gap by employing the social justice framework of the Health Capabi...

In the context of clinical and non-clinical biomedical practices, negligence is usually understood as a lapse of a specific professional duty by a healthcare worker or by a medical facility. This paper tries to delineate systemic negligence as another kind of negligence in the context of health systems, particularly in developing countries, that ne...

Abstract For last couple of years, the subcontinent of India has witnessed a number of influenza epidemic outbreaks. History reveals influenza epidemic to be a constant but neglected companion of India. Considering the repeated occurrences of the event on Indian soil, including influenza A H1N1 (2012-13) after 2009-10 pandemic event, a check t...

Emphasizing that ethical responsibilities of a business, is actually addressing sustainable development in all three dimensions: economic, ecological and social. The question of sustainability of business is well answered by the concept of Sustainable Development (SD), where the SD framework gives a new direction to the way Corporate Social Respons...

After discussing the various changes that the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has undergone since its inception, this paper focuses on a relatively new proposal by the United Nations (UN) called ‘Global Compact’ (GC) and ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) to reshape Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a tool for national an...

After the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) experience in 2003, ethics has found a place in discourses on pandemic planning and public health. It is no longer enough to merely have action strategies in a pandemic plan; both research literature and the World Health Organization recommend that one has to further ensure that the outcome of such...

This paper examines the case of a recent H5N1virus (avian influenza) outbreak in West Bengal, an eastern state of India, and argues that poorly executed pandemic management may be viewed as a moral lapse. It further argues that pandemic management initiatives are intimately related to the concept of health as a social 'good' and to the moral respon...

The Second Edition of this text continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to Logic, a subject that is increasingly becoming popular among students. What distinguishes the text is its graded step-by-step approach to the subject, with informal logic forming the basis and Symbolic logic and Inductive logic forming the more advanced steps. The...

Recent literature shows that ethics of care can be used as a theoretical basis to add a new, important dimension to social issues. This paper argues for a similar extension of the theoretical support from ethics of care to an area in bioethics. Specifically, it contends that a justification based ethics of care can be constructed to argue for a mor...

John Heil, independently and with David Robb, has recently proposed a nontraditional conception of properties. This ontology of properties does not allow any higher or lower level or order of being among the properties. Heil and Robb have claimed that their ontology of properties can solve most of the problems in philosophy of mind, because most of...

This article focuses on David Chalmers’s theory which promises to lead us toward a “scientific study” of mind and consciousness. It is a critique of the metaphysics that Chalmers has espoused to support his thesis; namely, property dualism which posits a dichotomy only at the level of properties and not at the level of things. I argue that Chalmers...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Philosophy, University of Utah, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [188]-194).