El Perú actual

El regreso de las epidemias. Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX

extent the approaches to illness and healing have become "disenchanted" during this period or not. The authors have drawn on a broad range of archival sources, medical literature and field studies (as far as the more recent history is concerned). The studies in this volume show that Max Weber's concept of the "disenchantment of the world" may be perfectly applicable to many phenomena, but lack ...

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The Burseraceae are represented in Peru by six genera and 50 species (Brako & Zarucchi, 1993; Ulloa Ulloa et al., 2004), all of them trees. Here we recognize two endemic taxa in two genera. These taxa are found in the Very Humid Lowland Amazonian Forests and Very Humid Premontane Forest regions, between 150 and 1300 m elevation. Neither species has been registered within Peru’s protected areas ...

[Epidemic dermatits by Paederus irritans in Piura, Perú at 1999, related to El Niño phenomenon].

The phenomen El Niño that affected Peru at 1998, made possible the growth of copious vegetation in traditionally dry places. On this way, Paederus irritans, dipterous of the order Coleoptera that produces dermatitis when croushed on the skin, found substract that allowed the natural growth of its population. The coming of occasional rains on the months of February to April 1999, attacked the ha...

Costo De Enfermedades Mentales Prevalentes En Perú.

Hiperglucemia de estrés y su control con insulina en el paciente crítico evidencia actual

Objective: To analyze the current evidence on glycemic control with insulin therapy in the critically ill. Recent findings: Stress hyperglycemia in critically ill patients has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, current evidence suggests that glucose variability has a predictive value for hospital mortality. Initially, the Leuven studies showed Elsevier España, ...