• Rural Indians cannot rely on official procedures to obtain social welfare entitlements. The rural poor make claims local politicians access welfare. Claims-making by people in India combine elements of 'clientelism', 'citizenship' and 'political society'. An agonistic account claims-making recognises its heterogeniety while appreciating the importance both consent contestation.

The shift to quality-based incentives continues emerge in pharmacy. Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) is currently working develop pharmacy measures for A1C and blood pressure reporting; adherence medications hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes treatment; antidepressant medication management. These are important that address chronic, high-cost, high-burden diseases, PQA noted. According Lynn...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...

Let us first take what is not a simple example, since it was the path along which I came to this idea of ecology : scientific practices, and more particularly physics. Physics as a practice is in dire need of a new habitat, since from its birth as the first so-called "modern science" its claims were entangled with its historical "habitat", and since those claims did survive this habitat. As a r...