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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...
This book is intended as an introduction to neuroradiology and aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of this highly specialized radiological subspecialty. One hundred illustrated cases from clinical practice are presented in a standard way. Each case is supported by representative images and is divided into three parts: a brief summary of the patient’s medical history, a discussion of the disease, and a description of the most characteristic imaging features of the disorder. The focus is not only on common neuroradiological entities such as stroke and acute head trauma but also on less frequent disorders that the practitioner should recognize. Learning Neuroimaging: 100 Essential Cases is an ideal resource for neuroradiology and radiology residents, neurology residents, neurosurgery residents, nurses, radiology technicians, and medical students.
El libro responde a la pregunta que plantea en su título (¿Cómo poner en práctica el gobierno abierto?), mostrando como guía de trabajo a juristas interesados las múltiples aristas que presentan tanto el denominado «Gobierno abierto» como los «datos abiertos», términos relacionados con los primeros. Los trabajos, articulados en doce capítulos, dan respuesta a la interrogante del título mostrando dos respuestas básicas: las razones de la amplia aceptación que los términos tienen, y la advertencia sobre las lagunas, oscuridades y limitaciones que su regulación y práctica contienen. Entre los autores se encuentran: Débora Anselmo: Softplan. Florianópolis. Aurelio Barrio Gall...