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Call for Submissions: Open Topics
Open submission. No set deadlines
Institutional stigma toward people affected by tuberculosis in primary health care facilities in a district of Lima, Peru
Eileen Janeth Contreras-Cerdeña, Diana Torres-Obregón, Camila Gianella-Malca, Paola Patiño-Rabines, María Amalia Pesantes
Despite biomedical advances in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, the institutional reproduction of stigma as a therapeutic barrier ... [Read more]
Transformations in the food practices of women experiencing severe homelessness: an analysis of experiences in a Communal Housing First project in Barcelona
Marta Llobet-Estany, Araceli Muñoz, María Eugenia Piola-Simioli, Claudia Rocío Magaña-González
Food is often addressed in institutional responses to women’s homelessness as a basic need to be met through standardized forms of assistance. ... [Read more]
Ending where one should have begun: the trajectory of Carlos Alberto Alvarado
Hugo Spinelli
This historical essay reconstructs the life trajectory of Carlos Alberto Alvarado (1904–1986) to examine the transformations of health thought ... [Read more]
eyond hunger: invisibilization devices, social inequality, and territory in child undernutrition in Latin America
Fernando Longhi
Child undernutrition is often approached as a biomedical problem or as a direct consequence of poverty. This study proposes a critical historical-territorial... [Read more]
Giving context and meaning to hearing voices: The Maastricht approach as a technology of the self for the care of the self
Sandra González Durán
Within the biopsychiatric model, hearing voices is understood as an auditory hallucination, usually associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. ... [Read more]
Euthanasia: the right to live and die with dignity
Mario Sebastiani, Josefina Miró Quesada Gayoso
Milk for everyone?: The persistence of universal recommendations in the face of population genetic diversity in Jujuy, Argentina
Madalena F. Monteban, Lorena Claudia García
Dietary guidelines universally recommend the consumption of 2–3 daily servings of dairy products, without considering regional population-level ... [Read more]
“Everything was both very fast and very slow at the same time”: heterochronic experiences of healthcare professionals in the provision of assisted dying in Spain
Eduard Moreno-Gabriel, Maria Verdaguer, Patricia Beroiz-Groh, Xavier Busquet-Duran, Antonia Arreciado Marañón, Maria Feijoo-Cid, Miquel Domènech, Lupicinio Íñiguez-Rueda, Pere Toran-Monserrat
Since its enactment, Organic Law 3/2021 on the Regulation of Euthanasia has altered the experience and professional practice of numerous individuals ... [Read more]
Cesarean sections as a biopolitical expression of birth: The case of Neuquén province, Argentina
Serena Perner, Hugo Spinelli, Viviana Martinovich, Marcio Alazraqui
Cesarean sections continue to increase globally regardless of international recommendations and evidence of their risks when not medically ... [Read more]
Dying with dignity, but what is dignity?
Martín D. Farrell
Within moral and legal philosophy, this essay critically examines the concept of dignity in the debate on euthanasia, starting from its intrinsically ... [Read 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 marked ... [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, 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 ... [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 ... [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 ... [Read more]
Existential suffering and autonomy: Contributions to the debates on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide in Argentina
Darío Iván Radosta, Matias 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 ... [Read more]
