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Critical Medical Anthropology
Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.
2020 annual report of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
In 2020, the Alliance supported 18 ongoing projects, representing 145 grants across 38 countries. Find out more about these projects and how they are supporting the development of the field of health policy and systems research in this year's annual report. The report is organized around our core objectives: working together, empowering leaders, advancing knowledge and informing policy. We also look back at long-term investments that the Alliance has made to support greater capacity for health policy and systems research in Ethiopia.
Revista 24h nº 76
Edição completa da Revista 24h número 76, de sexta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2020
New Directions for University Museums
New Directions for University Museums is intended to help university museum leaders to help them plan strategically in the context of the issues and needs of the 2020s by examining trends affecting them and directions in response to those forces. It will lay out a series of potential directions for university museums in the 21st century using examples from the field. Although university museums are similar to other museums in their topic areas (art, natural history, archaeology, etc.) they are a unique category that requires special consideration. Today university museums are grappling with new forces that are affecting their future: University museums still have a dual responsibility to cam...
O FUTURO DAS METRÓPOLES desigualdades e governabilidade
Resultado da coletânea de artigos apresentados no seminário O futuro das metrópoles, este livro busca compreender as transformações das metrópoles na dupla dimensão: entender o seu presente e pensar o seu futuro. Por esse motivo, os textos aqui reunidos são marcados pela tensão inerente a todo trabalho de pesquisa que se pretenda científico e engajado. Textos engajados, antes de tudo por traduzirem o posicionamento crítico quanto às idéias, às visões e aos modelos teóricos que circulam no mundo acadêmico e fora dele e que fundam não só as pretensas demonstrações sobre os impactos da transformações econômicos sobre as grandes cidades, como também as narrativas catastr...
In Pursuit of Health Equity
Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day. While maintaining a consistent focus on health equity, social medicine has evolved with changi...
Health in the Highlands
"In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medica...
El final de la vida. Dar sentido a nuestra finitud
El fin de la vida parece un concepto engañosamente sencillo: toda vida tiene un principio y un final. Sin embargo, cuanto más se piensa en este simple hecho de la vida más preguntas surgen. El final de la vida en algunos contextos culturales tiende a reprimirse y ocultarse. Sin embargo, para las poblaciones pobres y marginadas, donde la muerte está siempre presente, el final de la vida es inmediatamente una parte de la vida. Quizá la pandemia mundial de la COVID-19 haya alterado esta dicotomía y haya concretado el final de la vida como una realidad a la que se enfrentan todos los seres, en muchas de sus facetas. Los artículos reunidos en este volumen pretenden hacer justicia a la complejidad del final de la vida y abordarlo desde distintas perspectivas.
Povos indígenas e o judiciário no contexto pandêmico
O presente livro tem o objetivo desafiador de trazer à baila análises iniciais, de uma ação que ainda está em andamento, sobre a experiência da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB), por meio de seu departamento jurídico, em levar um caso de litigância estratégica perante o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19, no primeiro semestre de 2020. Trata-se da Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (ADPF) no 709, proposta pela APIB e por seis partidos políticos (PT, PSOL, PDT, REDE, PC do B e PTB), buscando determinações para que o governo brasileiro adotasse medidas de proteção para os povos e comunidades indígenas diante da situação de extrema vulnerabilidade ante o vírus COVID-19.
Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension
This book provides an overview of pulmonary hypertensive diseases, the current understanding of their pathobiology, and a contemporary approach to diagnosis and treatment. It discusses the definition and classification of these disorders and the epidemiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); explores the approach to diagnosis and evaluation via methods such as echocardiography, right heart catheterization, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing; describes the major drug classes used to treat PAH and the cell signaling pathways that they target as well as adjunct and investigative therapies; and highlights special situations that are particularly challenging in the management of PAH. Written by experts in their respective fields, Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension is a valuable resource for pulmonologists, cardiologists, and practitioners in internal medicine and critical care.
