Fruta fresca, cuerpos marchitos: trabajadores agrícolas migrantes en Estados Unidos, es la traducción al español del primer trabajo etnográfico antropólogo Seth Holmes, titulado su idioma original como Fresh fruit, broken bodies: migrant farmworkes in the United States. El de Holmes fue publicado originalmente 2013 y está compuesto por siete capítulos. En cada uno ellos, se revela brutalidad el...

Ross syndrome is described as a rare disorder of sweating associated with areflexia and tonic pupil. Since Ross's first description in 1958, approximately 40 cases have been described. We assessed the involvement of cutaneous innervation in 12 subjects with Ross syndrome using quantitative sensory testing, sweating assessment and immunohistochemical study of anhidrotic and hyperhidrotic skin. T...

Objective: Perspective-taking difficulties have been demonstrated in autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, among other clinical presentations, and are traditionally examined from a Theory of Mind (ToM) point of view. Relational Frame Theory (RFT) offers a behavioural and contextual interpretation of perspective-taking, proposing that this ability can be studied in more detail by examinin...

Natural languages can express some logical propositions that humans, with similar cultural traditions, are able to immediately and correctly compute. We illustrate this fact with a famous text that Arthur Conan Doyle attributed to Sherlock Holmes: the “old maxim” mentioned in “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, where Holmes said: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the imp...

It was a dark November day, which at times would depress me, but my present surroundings raised my spirits. My wife, whom I dearly missed, had gone off for two weeks to visit her family in Dorset. My old regimental surgeon’s assistant, who served with me in Afghanistan and had just completed medical school, took over my practice for a few weeks. I had unexpectedly come into a few hundred pounds...