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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...