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Build that wall! Vaccine certificates, passes and passports, the distribution of harms and decolonial global health justice
(2021-12-16)
The implementation of COVID-19 vaccine certificates or passports entails many difficult issues, both technical and ethical. Looking at the ethical issues from a decolonial approach to justice, it is possible to observe ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Old, Broken, Disposable Critical Discourse Analysis of the Public Health Narrative About At-Risk Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Costa Rica
(2021-06-01)
During February and March, in Costa Rica, as well as in many other countries in Latin America, public health authorities and government officials insisted that there was no reason to panic or to hoard ...
COVID-19, Justicia Distributiva, Propiedad Intelectual y Geopolítica: Una Contextualización de la Gestión del Gobierno de Costa Rica ante la OMS
(2021)
En este capítulo la autora Arguedas Ramírez propone contextualizar algunos conflictos que emergen en el contexto de la actual pandemia, entre los deberes de los Estados de responder a la crisis sanitaria y las obligaciones ...
Bioethics in the Times of Contagious Populism
(2021-03-03)
As I write this short piece, several social protests are happening in Costa Rica, where I live. The messages that protestors are sending out are very confusing, even contradictory. However, in the midst of this chaos, it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...