Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Biopolitics of Beauty
The eugenesis of beauty -- Plastic governmentality -- The circulation of beauty -- Hope, affect, mobility -- The raciology of beauty -- Cosmetic citizens
Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/...
Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America
Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
As práticas educativas da aids no jornal Nós Por Exemplo (1991-1995)
O historiador Adolfo Veiller Souza Henriques analisa os discursos pedagógicos sobre a aids publicados no jornal Nós Por Exemplo no período de 1991 a 1995. As notícias publicadas no referido jornal continham orientações para os leitores acerca do sexo seguro, como também informações sobre a doença. Esses discursos se configuravam como práticas educativas a partir do momento em que buscavam promover entre os leitores do jornal hábitos higiênicos pautados pelo saber médico a respeito do tema. Para tanto, inspirado nos modos de fazer história possibilitados pela História Cultural, o autor se apropria dos conceitos de "biopolítica" de Michel Foucault (1988), de "sensibilidades" a...
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.
Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America
Is it always true that decentralization reforms put more power in the hands of governors and mayors? In post-developmental Latin America, the surprising answer to this question is no. In fact, a variety of outcomes are possible, depending largely on who initiates the reforms, how they are initiated, and in what order they are introduced. Tulia G. Falleti draws on extensive fieldwork, in-depth interviews, archival records, and quantitative data to explain the trajectories of decentralization processes and their markedly different outcomes in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. In her analysis, she develops a sequential theory and method that are successful in explaining this counterintuitive result. Her research contributes to the literature on path dependence and institutional evolution and will be of interest to scholars of decentralization, federalism, subnational politics, intergovernmental relations, and Latin American politics.
As Pestes do século XX
O livro traz um estudo, em perspectiva comparada, da tuberculose e da Aids no Brasil, nas primeiras e últimas décadas do século XX. Resgatando a análise de ensaios anteriores sobre a tuberculose na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, a autora constata a existência de analogias evidentes em relação à Aids tanto do ponto de vista do conhecimento científico e das ações institucionais quanto das construções sociais.
Política, salud y enfermedad en España: entre el desarrollismo y la transición democrática.
Esta obra pretende aportar nuevas perspectivas en el conocimiento que teníamos de la gestión de la salud y la enfermedad en España en un amplio período de tiempo, que abarca desde los años veinte y treinta del siglo XX pasando por el franquismo, la década de los noventa del pasado siglo y llegando a la época actual. La situación ha cambiado notablemente y hoy tenemos una amplia historiografía sobre todos estos periodos. Algunos de los capítulos son el resultado de investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo en proyectos financiados por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Otros se deben a la experiencia de académicos que, desde diversas instancias institucionales, participaron en la gestión de la salud y la enfermedad durante los dos últimos decenios del franquismo y en la transición a la democracia.
