PluriMed Journal of Medical Pluralism

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PluriMed – Journal of Medical Pluralism is an innovative, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the critical study of health at the intersections of diverse medical systems. Published by the Highland Institute, PluriMed provides a global platform for exploring how healing traditions, biomedicine, and emerging health practices coexist, contend, and reshape one another - especially in contexts marked by marginality, inequality, and rapid change. With a particular commitment to the Global South, PluriMed highlights the knowledge systems and therapeutic ecologies often overlooked in mainstream health discourses.

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Current Issue

Volume 1Entangled Medical Futures — Workshop Dossier

Published March 21, 2025

Issue description

This inaugural volume publishes the complete programme—titles and abstracts—from the international workshop Entangled Medical Futures: Plural Medicine, Climate-Altered Worlds, and More-Than-Human Care in Highland Asia (University of Edinburgh, 8–10 Oct 2025). Fr ... See the full issue

Conference Documents

  1. Michael Timothy Heneise (Author)

    Entangled Medical Futures: Plural Medicine, Climate-Altered Worlds, and More-Than-Human Care in Highland Asia

    The international workshop Entangled Medical Futures: Plural Medicine, Climate-Altered Worlds, and More-Than-Human Care in Highland Asia (University of Edinburgh, 8–10 October 2025) brought together scholars and practitioners from South Asia, Europe, and beyond to explore the intersections of health, healing, and ecological change in highland contexts. Hosted by the Centre for South Asian Studies and the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, in collaboration with UiT The Arctic University of Norway and The Highland Institute, and supported by the British Academy Visiting Fellowship, the event featured panels on ritual and healing, indigenous medicine, pedagogy, antimicrobial resistance, therapeutic trust, and policy. The programme reflects a milestone in the launch of PluriMed and documents the conversations shaping future scholarship on medical pluralism in the Anthropocene.