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The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central American
(2017)
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against ...
Justice, Human Rights and the Persistence of Hunger: A Current Issue in Bioethics and Biolaw in the 21st Century
(2019)
Presents the state of the art in biolaw, with a focus on biomedicine
Gathers contributions by some of the world’s most prominent experts on biolaw and bioethics
Considers controversial topics straight from today’s ...
Neoconservative Politics and Mobilizations in the Pandemic Context: the Case of Costa Rica
(2022)
The pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that produces the disease COVID-19 has generated, since the end of 2019, a concatenation of crises that ranges from basic aspects of public health and the economy, politics, gender, ...
A Feminist Food Justice Reflection on the Politics of Food, Land, and Agriculture in Central America
(2019)
This volume takes a unique approach, dealing specifically with issues at the intersection of food and agricultural systems, environmental degradation, and climate change. It fills a gap in the literature on food and ...
Ethics and Global Governance of Human Germline Genome Editing: The Problem of Techno-Scientific Colonialist Paternalism
(2020)
I want to enrich the debate about the ethics and governance of human germline editing (HGE) by emphasizing an underappreciated, yet important, set of concerns regarding exclusionary practices, norms, and efforts that impede ...
Poder obstétrico en Costa Rica: Políticas públicas, violencia obstétrica y gestión institucionalizada del embarazo, parto y posparto
(2020)
Este artículo analiza los resultados de una investigación sobre las políticas públicas relativa a la atención sanitaria del embarazo, parto y postparto, y su relevancia para sancionar y erradicar la violencia obstétrica. ...
Professional ethics, professionalization, and regulation of pharmaceutical sales representatives: Analyzing the Costa Rican case
(2020)
The purpose of this essay is to present an argument in favor of a strong state regulation of sales representatives working for pharmaceutical companies, taking as an example the Costa Rican legislation, which can be used ...
Abortion and Human Rights in Central America
(2019)
This essay aims to show that the nations of Central America must create access to safe and legal abortion as well as promote a political dialogue on the subject that is based on reason andscience, rather than religion.Not ...
Políticas antigénero en América Latina: Costa Rica - Ideología de género: la herramienta retórica del conservadurismo religioso en la contienda política y cultural. Una descripción del caso costarricense
(2020)
Este estudio es parte del esfuerzo de investigación regional coordinado por el
Observatorio de Sexualidad y Política (SPW) en el marco del Proyecto Género y Política en
América Latina el cual incluye otros ocho estudios ...
Reflexiones sobre el saber/poder obstétrico, la epistemología feminista y el feminismo descolonial, a partir de una investigación sobre la violencia obstétrica en Costa Rica
Reflections on the obstetrical power/knowledge, feminist epistemology and feminist post-colonial, based on research on obstetric violence in Costa Rica
(2016)
En este ensayo elaboro una reflexión acerca de los elementos epistemológicos que permean el saber/poder disciplinario que he conceptualizado como poder obstétrico, y que se ejerce a través de las diversas expresiones de ...