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The Alzheimer Conundrum
Why our approaches to Alzheimer's and dementia are problematic and contradictory Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer’s disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer’s disease and extensive in-depth interviews, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but should be complemented by a public health approach to prevention that is economically feasible, more humane, and much more effective globally than one exclusively focused on an increasingly harried search for a cure.
Higher Education in Latin America
Based on studies of higher education in seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru), the volume identifies opportunities for raising Latin America's profile on the global stage"--Jacket.
Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology
World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the exploration of such perplexities, will thus be both recognizably philosophical in character and inextricably bound up with anthropological fieldwork. The volume is put together accordingly: Precisely by mixing ostensibly philosophical papers with papers that engage in close anthropological study of concrete issues, it is meant to reflect the vital tie between these two aspects of the overall philosophical-anthropological enterprise. The collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.
Contrarreloj
"Dentro de la carrera ciclista muchos te dirán que no puedes, que es imposible, que no eres bueno. Pero ahíes donde toca ignorarlos y seguir pedaleando con la convicción clara de a dónde quieres llegar". S.B Santiago Botero saltó del ciclismo recreativo al profesional y aterrizó en Europa a los 23 años, sin saber casi nada del de porte a ese nivel. Aprender le costó varios errores que casi lo apartan de su destino. Fue un ciclista colombiano atípico: alto, rubio, universitario, con unas piernas potentes que se destacaban en la escalada, y sobre todo cuando pedaleaba solo contra el viento, en las cronos, una categoría en la que ningún colombiano había destacado antes. La contrarre...
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Educación, virtualidad e innovación.
El propósito de este libro es resaltar la evolución educativa que ha promovido la UNAD desde su fundación, tomando como base el paradigma de la educación a distancia y creciendo a pesar de la resistencia que se ha generado con la educación tradicional. Para esto exponemos las claves tecno-pedagógicas de la educación virtual y los nuevos paradigmas y modelos de aprendizaje alternativos. Exploramos el Modelo Pedagógico Unadista MPU, el significado y el sentido de la evaluación del aprendizaje, el papel didáctico que cumplen los medios y los recursos educativos como soporte del conocimiento, así como de sus etapas de planificación e instrumentos propios de la educación virtual explicando el rol del Docente en este modelo educativo, y concretamente en la UNAD.
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