- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Latin American socio-political dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Ethics in medical practice
- Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Gender and Feminist Studies
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Herbal Medicine Research Studies
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Religion and Society in Latin America
- History, Culture, and Society
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Law, Ethics, and AI Impact
University of Buenos Aires
2013-2024
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2009-2024
Center for the Study of State and Society
2014
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
2014
London South Bank University
2014
Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua
2013
La construcción de una ciencia del Trabajo Social constituye un debate que ha adquirido intensidad disciplinar en la última década. Ello es resultado los esfuerzos progresivos vigilancia y depuración epistemológica se venido produciendo allí dónde el tiene presencia. Para contribuir a dicho proceso, este artículo propone vértice analítico organizado tres momentos. El primero ellos adentra cuestiones epistémicas mostrando las construcciones internas discutiendo con relación naturaleza...
This article has 3 goals: To describe the attitudes and experiences of staff on end-of-life care treatment dying persons, to examine how view their terminally ill patients, gather professionals’ opinions impact daily lives. It is a qualitative research inquiry based constructivist-grounded theory design. The study subjects were professionals who part palliative services in Buenos Aires city during 2012. A purposive sample 30 personnel answered an open-ended questionnaire assessing...
The purpose of this article is to examine some obstacles and dilemmas related methodological strategies ethical considerations that arose during the fieldwork research focused on family violence stages pregnancy childbirth in adolescent females Buenos Aires 2007. From study, we are able contribute reflections arena qualitative mixed methods inquiries. Some problematic topics encountered were: institutional constraints, questionnaires with categories too abstract for target population, lack...
In this article we approach socioeconomic inequities in cancer by examining a particular dimension of health care: how services attending patients with set priorities for their daily activities. By using qualitative ethnographic data, explore logics underlying practitioners make priority-setting decisions regarding prevention and care. We found four main types accounts: accounts based on macro social inequalities, patients’ cultural features, characteristics services, personal voluntarism....
Scholars in medical anthropology note that, despite more than 25 years of anthropological studies on cancer, much this scholarship remains marginal mainstream public health approaches. This paper examines social practices, biases, and unnoticed assumptions global research culture that prevents from having a influential role cancer policy agendas. It focuses the day-to-day, ordinary, micro academic practices which differential power distribution exacerbates inequity within field, ignoring...
El artículo indaga en los modos que el personal sanitario contextos institucionales de atención final vida se apropia discursos sobre las “diferencias culturales” poblaciones atienden para basar sus intervenciones, interpretando qué es lo pacientes y familias necesitan. Sostiene la apelación a clave culturalista aparece cuando pertenecen minorías étnicas, atravesando comunicación enfermedad; gestión cuidado espiritualidad, religiosidad sistemas creencias. Se trata un análisis secundario...
The aim of the study was to describe type intervention provided by hospice staff in order address pragmatic, psycho-social, and spiritual needs home-caregivers for patients last stage cancer.The qualitative inquiry carried out real life contexts.The explicit demands that caregivers (n = 40) identified first interviews were: (1) helping organize care patient at home;(2) unspecific demands, with unclear or unrealistic purposes (e.g., curative treatment a miracle expected occur); (3) specific...
This article is aimed at providing insights into the experiences of rural nurses' and their perceptions in relation to disciplinary values, particularities cultural context, institutional constraints such settings, effects other health systems on day-to-day healthcare practices carried out low-resource centres.This study based a framework equity used explain differences access preventive adequate care, which result different rates morbidity mortality among regions.Many researchers provide...
Redigimos esta apresentação em plena pandemia do covid-19. Ao lançarmos a chamada para o dossiê 9 da Revista M., com tema “Doença e Morte”, não havia sombra ou sinal, tanto na imaginação fantasia quanto dados observáveis observados divulgados mídia, que viria configurar mais mortal das epidemias mundiais. Na chamada, afirmamos diferentes tempos, culturas, grupos sociedades elaboraram – elaboram sistemas de classificação, leitura, entendimento intervenção referentes ao há algum tempo se...