multi-national vaccine trials, I will refer primarily to the UNAIDS Guidance Document, Ethical Considerations in HIV Preventive Vaccine Research (hereafter, Guidance Document) [1]. This document, which was developed in the mid-1990s, states that its scope is limited to multinational trials of HIV preventive vaccines. However, I suggest that it is more generally relevant to multinational trials,...

This paper presents the results of a theoretic-pedagogical research, which objective was to analyze peace education from complex thinking and cultural-linguistic relativism approach through documentary-bibliographic study. Authors found, that must be considered as epistemological basis education. Its main postulate regarding equitable articulation different without hegemonic center (or universa...

Growing interest in qualitative research methods and methodological pluralism in psychology since the 1990s is placed in the historical contexts of long-standing philosophical and scientific rationales and the more recent ‘‘qualitative revolution’’ in other social sciences that began in the 1970s. An examination of areas in which qualitative methods have become most strongly established—applied...

I chronicle the American magazine industry from its inception in 1741 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 and explain how the industry came to take on a form that, in large part, persists to the present day. My analysis highlights the cultural factors that shaped magazines: on the supply side, the social construction of a market-based conception of authorship and a supporting legal framewo...

The book is divided into three parts: I. ‘Cynical Myths’, II. ‘False Theories’ and III. ‘Why Truth matters’. Part I offers a diagnosis and criticism of views that naturally lead to cynicism with respect to truth: (a) the view that truth is unattainable, (b) the view that truth is relative, and (c) the view that falsehood is often more useful than truth. Part II offers a critique of prominent th...

Medicine has become interested in unconventional healing practices, ostensibly because of recent demographic research that reveals a thriving medical market of multiple options. This essay presents a historical overview of medical pluralism in the United States. Consistent evidence is examined suggesting that unconventional medicine has been a persistent presence in U.S. health care. Despite pa...