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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit work to PluriMed: Critical Studies in Medicine, Healing & Health. PluriMed welcomes submissions that contribute to critical, comparative, ethnographic, historical, theoretical, ecological, and interdisciplinary studies of medicine, healing, and health.

All submissions will first be assessed by an editor to determine whether they fit the journal’s aims and scope. Submissions considered suitable for PluriMed may then be sent for peer review, editorial review, or archival review, depending on the submission type.

PluriMed publishes both peer-reviewed scholarship and selected non-peer-reviewed materials connected to conferences, workshops, field reports, interviews, translations, and living-archive documentation. The review status of each published item will be clearly indicated.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for ensuring that their work is original, properly prepared, and ethically sound. Authors must obtain permission to publish any copyrighted or third-party material included in the submission, including photographs, images, documents, datasets, interview excerpts, archival materials, translations, or other media. All listed authors must consent to being identified as authors.

Where appropriate, research should be approved by a relevant ethics committee, institutional review board, or equivalent body in accordance with the legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries in which the research was conducted. For ethnographic, collaborative, Indigenous, community-based, or practitioner-facing research, authors should also demonstrate appropriate attention to consent, attribution, confidentiality, reciprocity, and the politics of representation.

Editors may desk reject a submission if it does not meet the journal’s scope, ethical standards, formatting requirements, or minimum standards of scholarly quality. Before submitting, authors should ensure that the title is concise, the abstract stands on its own, the argument is clearly articulated, and the manuscript is carefully structured and proofread.

PluriMed especially encourages submissions that engage with medical anthropology, medical pluralism, healing traditions, ritual and religious therapeutics, public health, Indigenous and non-state knowledge systems, environmental and medical humanities, history of medicine, critical global health, Highland Asia, the Global South, postcolonial health ecologies, and emerging therapeutic worlds.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission fits the aims and scope of PluriMed: Critical Studies in Medicine, Healing & Health.
  • The submission has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration by another journal, unless it is being submitted as an archival, conference, translation, or living-archive item whose prior status has been clearly disclosed to the editors.
  • The author has selected the correct submission category, such as Article, Field Note, Review, Interview, Translation, Conference Document, or other appropriate format.
  • The title is concise, informative, and appropriate for the submission type.
  • The abstract clearly summarizes the submission and can stand on its own.
  • The manuscript has been carefully proofread and is structured clearly.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables, figures, images, maps, and other visual materials have been numbered, titled, and properly cited.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photographs, images, documents, datasets, translations, archival materials, or other third-party content included in the submission.
  • All listed authors have approved the submission and consent to being identified as authors.
  • Any relevant funding, institutional support, conflicts of interest, or acknowledgements have been disclosed.
  • Where appropriate, ethics approval, informed consent, or community permission has been obtained and described.
  • The author understands that peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed materials will be clearly distinguished in the published record.

Articles

The Articles section publishes original peer-reviewed scholarship contributing to critical studies of medicine, healing, and health.

This section welcomes full-length research articles, theoretical essays, ethnographic essays, historical studies, methodological reflections, and interdisciplinary work. Submissions may address medical pluralism, healing practices, public health, Indigenous and local knowledge systems, biomedicine, ritual and religious therapeutics, environmental health, pharmaceuticals, colonial and postcolonial medicine, epistemic justice, speculative medicine, or related themes.

Articles normally undergo double-anonymous peer review. Authors should remove identifying information from the manuscript file where appropriate and provide any author details separately through the submission system.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright of their work published in PluriMed: Critical Studies in Medicine, Healing & Health.

By submitting to PluriMed, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, preserve, index, and archive the submitted work in print, digital, and other formats associated with the journal.

Unless otherwise stated, published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows others to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, share, adapt, and reuse the work, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author or authors and to the original publication in PluriMed.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to share their published work in institutional repositories, disciplinary archives, personal websites, teaching platforms, and scholarly networks, provided that the original publication in PluriMed is properly cited.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted or third-party material included in their submission, including images, photographs, maps, archival documents, datasets, translations, interview excerpts, and other media.

For conference documents, workshop materials, translations, interviews, field notes, and other living-archive materials, copyright and licensing arrangements may vary depending on contributor permissions and the nature of the material. Any exceptions to the standard license will be clearly indicated in the published item.

Submission to PluriMed confirms that all authors agree to this copyright notice and that the work does not infringe upon the rights of others.

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Personal information will not be sold, rented, or made available to third parties for commercial purposes. Author and reviewer information will be handled securely and will not be shared beyond the normal operation of the journal without explicit consent, except where required by law.

Reviewer identities are treated as confidential in accordance with the journal’s review policies. Editorial correspondence, review reports, and unpublished submission materials will not be made public without permission.

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