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Este libro presenta una recopilación de los resultados de investigación sobre el Camu camu, el proceso de transferencia de tecnología a la comunidad para su transformación e inserción en los mercados; muestra también como las mejores prácticas contribuyen a una producción sostenible y que cumple con estándares de calidad. Para terminar expone las formas de trabajo y organización adoptadas por las comunidades asociadas, para que este emprendimiento tenga una exitosa continuidad que redunde en el bienestar para la población de Tarapacá y disminuir la pobreza, uno de los retos planteados en los Objetivos del Milenio.
Human societies are influencing nature in such a way that their independent analysis is no longer suitable. Fortunately, social-ecological systems provide a conceptual framework for the interconnected analysis of societies and ecosystems. However, in the case of Latin America, the complexity of social-ecological processes undermined a much-needed compilation of theoretical concepts, methods and case studies. Increasing readers’ understanding of such systems using a postnormal approach, the book discusses current concepts and methods with examples of studies from eight countries. It is a useful resource for social actors, government decision makers and scholars.
Uno de los cuestionamientos actuales en torno a la epidemiología es su posibilidad de formular conocimientos de aplicación universal cuando su campo de estudio es inherentemente contextual. Se pone en duda así la tendencia principal a la planificación y la toma de decisiones a partir de datos producidos desde el nivel central, desatendiendo la variedad de las situaciones de las comunidades. En respuesta a esto, se ha formulado lo que se denomina epidemiología comunitaria, la cual considera que la salud emana de la autonomía de las comunidades y que los datos deben provenir del conocimiento de estas sobre sí mismas. El proyecto Bia 'Buma ("estar bien" en lengua embera) es un ejemplo pa...
This book contains the summaries of the "Innovation in Pharmacy: Advances and Perspectives" that took place in Salamanca (Spain) in September 2018. The early science of chemistry and microbiology were the source of most drugs until the revolution of genetic engineering in the mid 1970s. Then biotechnology made available novel protein agents such as interferons, blood factors and monoclonal antibodies that have changed the modern pharmacy. Over the past year, a new pharmacy of oligonucleotides has emerged from the science of gene expression such as RNA splicing and RNA interference. The ability to design therapeutic agents from genomic sequences will transform treatment for many diseases. The...
This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power. It critically examines the ways in which colonial feminisms have homogenized the "category of woman,” ignoring the intersecting relationship of class, race, and gender, thereby excluding the voices of “subaltern women” and upholding existing power structures. Supplementing that analysis are testimonials from rural Colombian women who speak about their struggles for sovereignty and against territorial, sexual, and racialized violence enacted upon their land and their bodies. By documenting the stories of rural women and centering their voices, this book seeks to dismantle the coloniality of power and gender, and narrate and imagine decolonial feminist worlds. Scholars in gender studies, rural studies, and post-colonial studies will find this work of interest.
Este libro se publica con motivo de la celebración de los 85 años de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Para comprender integralmente su proceso, desde su creación hasta el presente, así como sus proyecciones, hemos reunido unos textos fundamentales para que la sociedad se familiarice con la importancia de la vida y la obra de la entidad. El libro refleja en sus páginas la historia de la institución y su compromiso con la misión de fomentar y fortalecer las ciencias exactas, físicas y naturales, sus aplicaciones y su enseñanza. Está enriquecido con textos sobre los antecedentes de las academias en el ámbito global, y sobre la fundamentación de la ci...
Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.
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