Latin American Political Thought: A Developmental Perspective

A Latin American Perspective on Ion Channels.

Ion channels, both ligand- and voltage-gated, play fundamental roles in many physiologic processes. Alteration in ion channel function underlies numerous pathologies, including hypertension, diabetes, chronic pain, epilepsy, certain cancers, and neuromuscular diseases. In addition, an increasing number of inherited and de novo ion channel mutations have been shown to contribute to disease state...

Latin american debt: an international bargaining perspective*

No assessment of new or recently re-established democracies in Latin America can overlook the threat to these regimes posed by debt service obligations that are often heavier and more durable than the reparations imposed on Weimar Germany. No discussion of the weakening of the liberal international economic order (the trend towards trade protection, chronic instability in currency and financial...

Developmental Biology Takes on a Latin American Rhythm

Latin America, the vast geopolitical region from Mexico to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, evokes images of the rain forests of the Amazon and snowcapped peaks of the Andes, ancient Incan and Mayan civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese colonialism, and iconic cities like Rio de Janeiro. Biological research in Latin America has traditionally focused on disciplines such as physiology, phar...

Political Artifacts In Scandinavia: An American Perspective

How does it stand with Scandinavian attempts to democratize technological choice? How can those efforts improve our grasp of the politics of technology? These are questions posed by an outsider. As a reader of books and articles, I have followed the projects carried out during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, work that sought to politicize technological choices in Scandinavian countries and to illum...

The Political Economy of Latin American Economic Growth