Perspectivas Bioeticas No 41

La Revista de Bioética y Derecho se creó en 2004 a iniciativa del Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho (OBD), con el soporte del Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/master. En 2016 la revista Perspectivas Bioéticas del Programa de Bioética de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) se ha fusionado con la Revista de Bioética y Derecho. Esta es una revista electrónica de acceso abierto, lo que significa que todo el contenido es de libre acceso sin coste alguno para el usuario o su institución. Los usuarios pueden...

The book is a thorough analysis of the architectonic and urban development of the city of Oaxaca from the last decades of the colonial period to the early 20th century. The author presents a novel revision of the city during the Porfirio Diaz regime, concluding that Oaxaca was the natural historic consequence of previous periods. Enclosed booklet is a graphic appendix.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

Las voces de la pantalla son las que se hacen oír desde el punto en que se mira. Sentados en la sala de cine o ante la pequeña pantalla del televisor, o ante la del ordenador, las voces marcan el tiempo de la contemplación. Voz y mirada se acoplan en la pantalla, se suplementan, se suman para crear la escena, para agregarle un plus de veracidad. Parece haber una ambición de infinito en el ser parlante, al modo de Borges en El aleph, que anhela ver el punto de donde parten todos los sentidos, todos los puntos de vista. En lo que hace a este anhelo, la voz proporciona al menos, un punto de...