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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 ...
¿Ideología de género? Alianza entre el neointegrismo católico y fundamentalismo evangélico frente a los feminismos y la diversidad sexual. Un análisis desde América Latina
(2019)
Los inicios del siglo veintiuno han sido el escenario de profundos cambios en las sociedades latinoamericanas. En menos de veinte años hemos presenciado esfuerzos democratizadores impulsados por gobiernos de izquierda ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...