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Nephrology is one of the fastest growing specialties in medicine. Nevertheless, kidney disease is one of the most serious unmet health needs in many countries. To provide healthcare access with the desirable equity worldwide, the nephrology community needs to discuss this public health issue and take part in decisions for elaboration of public health policies with more justice and equity. This book brings together key current public health problems that affect kidney function and illuminates them in contributions by an international group of nephrologists and general practitioners. The chapters review current knowledge and provide guidelines to manage these conditions and decrease the disease burden. At the end, developments in the digital era and their application to kidney disease treatment are synthesized, and a broader outlook on the future of nephrology is given. Ultimately, the publication aims to gather nephrology and public health expertise from researchers from all over the world, providing a broad vision of issues that must be discussed and overcome to guarantee a better treatment for patients with kidney diseases in the world today.
A Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência (CRPD) modificou a forma de abordar a deficiência e isso refletiu em muitos institutos jurídicos tradicionais. Uma das mudanças mais revolucionárias e complexas decorre do artigo 12 que impõe a igualdade perante a lei. Esta dimensão da igualdade não é nova para o Direito. A inovação está na abolição da deficiência como critério mitigador da personalidade jurídica e da capacidade jurídica. O livro que apresentamos desenvolve a análise do artigo 12.o da CDPD e a sua interação com institutos relevantes do Direito Civil de países latino-americanos: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia e Peru. Enfatiza os impactos no...
Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In Santería Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice, Brown shows how negotiation among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion's symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of chang...
Durante los primeros cinco años de vida de todo ser humano, se presentan cambios relacionados con el crecimiento y el desarrollo que están influenciados por factores genéticos y ambientales, en los que la alimentación desempeña un papel fundamental. Una dieta balanceada incluye la combinación de porciones adecuadas de alimentos de diferentes grupos, como leche y derivados; frutas; verduras; carnes, pollo, huevo y pescados; leguminosas; cereales y tubérculos, raíces y plátanos. Sin embargo, el tamaño de las porciones es diferente de acuerdo con el alimento, la preparación y el tipo de comida en el que sea incluido. Este libro es resultado de una investigación que responde a dos ne...
This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants MAPs of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and medicinal importance. The Amazon Basin, in northern Brazil has a highly diverse biota and still harbours a variety of unknown and unstudied plant species for medicinal values. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice it shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion’s symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina’s Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, the book argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usuable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities – a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora.
Tras la obligada pausa de la guerra, que interrumpió la publicación de las diversas colecciones teatrales que aún veían la luz en 1936, en los primeros años de la posguerra se reanuda con gran pujanza la publicación de comedias. De las colecciones anteriores a la guerra sólo sobrevivió, aunque con algunos cambios, "Teatro selecto", y desaparecieron "Teatro frívolo" y "La Farsa". En cambio nacieron, entre otras, "Talía", "La Escena", "Biblioteca Teatral", "La Farándula", "Las Máscaras", "Proscenio", "Éxito y Teatro", que es la que más números publicó.
Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in modern Cuban cultural history. Enslaved Africans and creoles developed the Abakuá Society, a system of men’s fraternal lodges, in urban Cuba beginnings in 1836. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the country, the book’s novel approach builds on close readings of dazzling Abakuá altars, chalk-drawn signs, and hooded masquerades. It looks at the art history of Abakuá altars, not only tracing changing styles but also how they evolve through cycles of tradition and renovation. The Light Inside reflects the essence of the artists’ creativity and expe...