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46Advance directives and the family: French and American perspectivesClinical Ethics 2 (3): 139-145. 2007.Several studies have explored differences between North American and European doctor patient relationships. They have focused primarily on differences in philosophical traditions and historic and socioeconomic factors between these two regions that might lead to differences in behaviour, as well as divergent concepts in and justifications of medical practice. However, few empirical intercultural studies have been carried out to identify in practice these cultural differences. This lack of standa…Read more
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2San Agustín. Aproximaciones a su pensamiento teológico y espiritual, tomo II (review)Mayéutica 43 (96): 441-442. 2017.
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2Grappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the human sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases. First, the scholarship has reflected a dialogue between Latin American scientists and their European colleagues, characterized by the “center/periphery” model of scientific diffusion. Next, scholars drew on postcolonial theory to undermine the power of the “center” and to recover the role of local agents, including both elites and…Read more
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9Educación infantil y calidad docenteHuman Review. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades 11 (2): 1-19. 2022.Es escasa la investigación sobre las competencias necesarias para educar eficazmente en los primeros años de vida, y sobre los factores que influyen en la adquisición de una identidad docente de calidad para trabajar en Educación Infantil (EI). Los resultados de la presente revisión integradora apuntan que (1) el profesorado excelente de EI atiende a la diversidad de su alumnado, (2) las comunidades de práctica contribuyen a la adquisición de una identidad docente excelente, y (3) ciertas defici…Read more
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26Fray Antonio de Fuentelapeña y la racionalidad de los animalesRevista Española de Filosofía Medieval 17 157-170. 2010.El fraile capuchino Antonio de Fuentelapeña escribió en 1676 El ente dilucidado, obra de filosofía escolástica en la que su autor pretende demostrar la existencia de duendes. Sin embargo, la crítica posterior juzgó como extravagancia y locura la obra, sin reparar en que sus argumentos escolásticos analizaron muchos temas filosóficos de extrema importancia, como la racionalidad de los animales, tan en boga hoy día gracias al estudio de la conducta animal comparada, la Etología
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17Juan José Saldaña . Science in Latin America: A History. Translated by Bernabé Madrigal. vi + 256 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006 (review)Isis 99 (1): 162-164. 2008.
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1Science in Latin America: A History. Translated by Bernabé Madrigal (review)Isis 99 162-164. 2008.
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7Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876–1910 (review)Isis 98 186-187. 2007.
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20Inoculating against Barbarism? State Medicine and Immigrant Policy in Turn-of-the-Century ArgentinaScience in Context 19 (3): 357-380. 2006.ArgumentThe border in turn-of-the-century Argentina was a place of heightened anxiety. State officials ignored the nation's vast land borders and focused on the port, located in the capital city of Buenos Aires, which attracted nearly six million European immigrants in the decades after 1870. Federal authorities were seeking to attract new immigrants and yet they were terrified that opening their gates would allow entry among the potential citizenry a new category of “toxins” dangerous to the na…Read more
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University of Wales AberystwythUndergraduate
Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland