Getting Sensitive Information on Sensitive Issues: Gynaecological Morbidity

Surinder Jaswal has a BSc in Chemistry (Bombay University), an MA in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) and a PhD in gynaecological and mental health of low-income urban women (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She has been principal investigator on studies in understanding sexuality, an ethnographic study of poor women in Mumbai, communication needs assessment, and the role of ICDS workers. Trudy Harpham is Professor of Urban Development and Policy at South Bank University, UK. She currently has urban health research projects in Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Her most recent book was Urban health in developing countries: progress and prospects published by Earthscan in 1995.