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Horizons for traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in the 21st century [see more]
Shame over tooth loss: between psychological suffering and structural inequality in Chilean oral health
Manuel Alejandro Castro Gatica, Karen Danke Hausdorf, Ingeborg Bevensee Canavati, Ana Beatriz Silva Lopes, Jorge Gamonal
The article analyzes how tooth loss among older adults is not merely a clinical issue but a social and emotional phenomenon... [Read more]
“Until God says ‘yes or no’, but here, in my home”: autonomy and end-of-life care for rural older adults in the Los Lagos Region, Chile
Ignacia Navarrete Luco, Alejandra Fuentes-García, Verónica Aliaga-Castillo
Aging and increased life expectancy generate growing challenges for end-of-life care in old age, particularly in rural contexts marked by territorial and health inequalities... [Read more]
End-of-life practices and advance directives: a bioethical analysis based on discussions in the Brazilian Federal Legislative Branch
Melisse Eich, Marta Verdi, Pedro Paulo Scremin Martins, Mirelle Finkler
The Brazilian legislative debate on end-of-life practices involves ethical-axiological tensions related to euthanasia, assisted suicide, palliative care, and advance directives... [Read more]
Labor inclusion and medicalization: neuroleptics as actants in the experiences of workers diagnosed with schizophrenia in Chile
Ernesto Bouey Vargas, María José Reyes Andreani
People diagnosed with schizophrenia exhibit low rates of labor market participation, a phenomenon that has been predominantly addressed from biomedical approaches [Read more]
Existential suffering and autonomy: Contributions to the debates on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide in Argentina
Darío Iván Radosta, Matías Paschkes Ronis
This article arises from the need to critically reflect on the subjective experience of those who request euthanasia, as well as on the ethical tensions between the conceptual clarity required by legal regulation... [Read more]
Lay knowledge and epistemic justice in mental health: a critical analysis of the peer support worker in the Spanish State
Diana Gonzalez-Mañas, Martín Correa-Urquiza
This essay critically examines the figure of the peer support worker within the mental health system of the Spanish State [read more].
Illegal yet ongoing: surrogacy through the moral prism of urban Chinese women in Nanjing
Zhenkang Li
How urban Chinese women understand and morally evaluate surrogacy remains an insufficiently explored area, despite the persistence of this practice in clandestine forms under a strict legal ban in China [Read more]
“Invisibility” as a mirror of civilizational malaise: the rise of the homeless population and their fights for recognition in Brazil
Sonia Fleury
The rise in the population experiencing homelessness has become one of the defining social contradictions of our time [Read more]
Sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls in protection and social reintegration programs in Chile: tensions between paternalism and bodily autonomy
Daniela González Aristegui, Ingrid Leal Fuentes, Carolina Carstens Riveros, Temístocles Molina González
In an adult-centered and adultist culture, state interventions addressing violations of the rights of children and adolescents are grounded in a paternalistic view [Read more]
Beyond the factory model: the power of territories
Hugo Spinelli
This article offers a critique of the hegemony of the factory model as the organizational matrix of social institutions. This factory model has hindered an understanding of both the ontological complexity of the social world and the singularity of territories [Read more]
“Living step by step”: Rehabilitation pathways of children with disabilities in the narratives of women caregivers in western Santiago, Chile
Nelson Muñoz-Lizana, Paulina Osorio-Parraguez, Juan Andrés Pino-Morán
In Chile, childhood rehabilitation is recognized as a right supported by regulatory frameworks. However, its implementation presents limitations [Read more]
Intimate partner violence and help-seeking in Chiapas, Mexico: Implications for rural community health services
Mercedes Aguerrebere, Ana Cecilia Ortega, Rocío López, Sonia M. Frías
From a gender perspective, this study examines how women seek help in response to experiences of intimate partner violence [Read more]
The praxis of mental health care and the manifestation of stigma: an ethnographic study in mental health centers in the Biobío Region, Chile
Romina Jara-Ogeda, Pamela Grandón Fernández, Daniela Leyton Legües
In this article, we inquire into how mental health praxis reproduces stigma toward users of mental health centers [Read more]
Reproductive health: Intersections between technology and reproduction
Ana Lucía Olmos Álvarez, María Cecilia Johnson, Naara Luna, Rosa Martínez-Cuadros
In a century marked by rapid technological innovation and profound social change, reproductive health has emerged as one of the most dynamic and contested fields [Reed more]
Narrative objects of science: From industrialization to the cobotization of the interpretive experience
Viviana Martinovich
Drawing on critical theory and philosophical hermeneutics, this essay examines the processes of industrialization and “cobotization” of scientific practice [Read more]
Intervention to promote regulatory compliance in food and nutrition education in public basic education schools in the central region of Mexico
José Cutberto Hernández Ramírez
Food and nutrition education interventions in Mexican basic education schools have focused on conveying information... [Read more]
Becoming objects in the face of artificial intelligence
Hugo Spinelli
This essay offers a critical reflection on the effects of the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) on subjectivity, labor, and institutions, drawing on contributions from Latin American thought on science and technology, as well as from contemporary philosophical debates. [Read more]
Ethics in social research, its absences, urgencies, and possibilities: Critical proposals from Latin America
Rubén Muñoz Martínez
Ethics in qualitative social research has particular features that distinguish it from the model formulated in the Global North [Read more]
Addressing racial/ethnic disparities and racism in health: A call for equity
Andrêa Ferreira, Vivian Carla Honorato dos Santos de Carvalho, Joseph Palumbo
The intersections between race and ethnicity, racism, and health are a matter of pressing concern in the field of collective health [Read more]
