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Peruvian Street Lives
For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's Andean highlands. Her combination of ethnographic analysis, insightful and human vignettes, and superb photographs offers a humane yet incisive portrait of the women's lives against the backdrop of globalization and other powerful forces. In Peruvian Street Lives, Seligmann argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish may appear disorderly and chaotic, but in fact often keep dysfunctional economies and corrupt bureaucracies from utterly destroying the ability of citizens to survive from day to day. Seligmann asks why the constructive efforts of market women to make a living provoke such negative social perceptions from some members of Peruvian society, who see them as symbols and actual catalysts of social disorder. At the same time, Seligmann shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and transgress racial and gender ideologies within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed.
Systems thinking: strengthening health systems in practice
As health systems all over the world not only recover from COVID-19, but learn to adapt to contexts of increasing uncertainty amidst persistent challenges, it is clear that systems thinking has never been needed more. Systems thinking is an approach to problem-solving that views problems as part of a wider dynamic system. It recognizes and prioritizes the understanding of linkages, relationships, interactions and interdependencies among the components of a system that give rise to the system’s observed behaviour. Systems thinking is a philosophical frame, and it can also be considered a method with its own tools. Identifying ways in the short and long-term which strengthen health systems i...
Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America
This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood and maternalism—the ways in which motherhood becomes a public policy issue. As maternalism embraces and enhances gender differences, it has been criticized for deepening gender inequalities. Yet invoking motherhood continues to offer an effective strategy for advancing women’s living conditions and rights, and for women themselves to be present in the public sphere. In analyzing these important relationships, the contributors to this volume discuss maternal health, sexual and reproductive rights, labor programs, paid employment, women miners’ unionization, housing policies, environmental suffering, and LGBTQ intimate partner violence.
Conservation in Chilean Patagonia
Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world ́s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence across the region, while the long and rich history of conservation efforts have resulted in officially protected areas covering over 50% of the land and 41% of the coastal-marine area. However, Chilean Patagonia is increasingly facing anthropogenic pressures associated with increased infrastructure a...
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat is a deeply intimate look at the cataclysmic shifts between humans, technology, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse, Robert Ostertag explores how we ourselves are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music, to how we have sex, to what we do to survive, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms, Ostertag finds enough creativity, compassion, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. A true polymath who co...
Liza Koshy
Comedians of the past proved their talent on stage, and in television shows and movies. A newer generation, however, has made YouTube the biggest hotbed for up-and-coming talent. Enter Liza Koshy, whose vibrant slapstick and wit have earned her more than sixteen million YouTube subscribers. This intriguing volume relates her rise from obscurity to popularity, and how she has leveraged her platform to share her fractured takes on modern life. Koshy's progression from Vine to YouTube, to a burgeoning television career, highlights how empowering messages, marketing savvy, and teen know-how combined to launch the career of an exciting new talent.
Portonazos
Esperando la jubilación que se acerca, el comisario Oscar Morante investiga portonazos. El nuevo director lo soporta apenas, solamente por cumplirle una promesa que le sacó la directora recién renunciada. Que lo aguante hasta que jubile le pidió y él le prometió que sí. Pero le dio carta blanca para hacer lo que quisiera con el policía. A nadie le interesan los portonazos. Rara vez producen consecuencias que lamentar. Parabrisas rotos, por lo general, un arañazo, un moretón. Las compañías de seguros los metabolizan en las pólizas generales, las de alarmas electrónicas innovan sus ofertas. Morante se limita a leer los informes que le llegan de las comisarías barriales, archivá...
Medicina familiar UC
Un grupo de estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Católica, a inicios de los años noventa, con el retorno de la democracia en Chile, sueña con contribuir a una medicina de calidad que pueda servir a las comunidades más vulnerables, lejos de las tecnologías y los hospitales, en la humildad de la atención primaria de salud. Este libro relata cómo ese anhelo de los internos, apoyados por valientes y visionarios profesores y autoridades de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, y luego por autoridades del Ministerio de Salud, se transforma en el programa de formación de médicos familiares más grande del país, con el aporte de personas, comunidades, instituciones públicas y...
La Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Costa Rica: una reseña histórica
Desde 1994, la Direccion de la Escuela de Medicina ha venido desarrollando una serie de actividades tendientes al rescate historico de la practica y ensenanza medicas de Costa Rica. Este libro de la Dra. Yalena de la Cruz es parte de ese esfuerzo, y resena los antecedentes y creacion de la Universidad de Costa Rica; el desarrollo de la profesion medica antes del establecimiento de la Escuela de Medicina; los antecedentes para estabalecer la Escuela de Medicina y su creacion; el inicio de la Escuela de Medicina; la construccion de su edificio; los recursos humanos; su organizacion y planes de Estudio; los graduados, y la situacion actual de la Escuela que ha formado ya mas de 2000 medicos.
