False and real, but avoidable, dichotomies

Identifying Real Dichotomies Underlying the False Dichotomy: Twenty-First Century Mediation in an Eclectic Regime

False dichotomies: EBM, clinical freedom, and the art of medicine.

According to numerous commentators, clinical freedom, the art of medicine, and, by implication, a degree of patient welfare, are threatened by evidence based medicine (EBM). As EBM has developed over the last fifteen years, claims about better evidence for medical treatments, and improvements in healthcare delivery, have been matched by critiques of EBM's reductionism and uniformity, its proble...

The problems of liminal states, line drawing, and false dichotomies

This commentary focuses on the tenuous line between health and disease and the conflicting characterizations of genetic predisposition that sometimes place it on one side of that line, and sometimes on the other. For example, GINA uses the line between health and disease to distinguish between, respectively, the healthy (including, those with genetic predispositions), who are shielded from disc...

False Dichotomies of Transitional Justice: Gender, Conflict and Combatants in Colombia

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 R I. WHAT IS TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 R II. EXAMINING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE WITH A GENDERED LENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 R A. False Dichotomy Between “Conflict” and “PostConflict” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Development Dichotomies

THE WORLD IS DIVIDED into two groups of people: those who divide the world into two groups of people, and those who don't. As I evidently belong to the former, I believe that the nature of various divisions can throw light on what has come to be known as the rise and decline of development economics. Albert Hirschman, in his stimulating contribution to the international symposium on Latin Ameri...