In medical pluralism, issues of the selective use of one sort of healer over another and what makes people opt for a specific source of health care are important. In this article, we discuss the availability of different health-care alternatives, the conditions that lead the health-care seeker to choose them and ‘therapeutic itineraries’ among a migrant tribal community living in an eastern Ind...

Decisions associated with Radioactive Waste (RW) Management programmes are made in the presence of irreducible and reducible uncertainties. Responsibilities roles each actor, nature RW disposal programme stage its implementation influence preferences category actors approaching uncertainty management. UMAN (UMAN – Uncertainties Multi-Actor Network is a Work Package European Programme EURAD) car...

This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural) principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or "rationing" decisions: need principles, maximising principles and egalitarian principles. The principles are compared by tracing out their implications for a hypothetical rationing decision involving four identified patients. This decision has...

A case for a pluralistic approach to cognitive science is sketched. It is argued that cognitive scientists should take seriously the possibility that a single, unified framework for all of cognition is an unrealistic expectation for its diverse interdisciplinary goals and subject matter. A pluralistic approach instead seeks ways of integrating the multiple perspectives that have provided explan...