Esculápios tropicais: a institucionalização da medicina no Pará, 1889-1919

Esta dissertação insere-se dentro de uma proposta que pretende recompor a história social da medicina no Pará sob uma nova perspectiva. Analisar a construção do poder e prestígio da medicina científica e dos médicos na sociedade paraense da virada do século XIX para o século XX é o principal objetivo deste trabalho. A intenção é mostrar que, longe de gozar de uma hegemonia no universo da cura e dispor de um poder imanente capaz de modelar a sociedade da época, os médicos ainda enfrentavam enormes dificuldade para legitimar sua ciência entre as mais diversas categorias sociais. Enquanto as autoridades republicanas, em nome da “Civilização” nos trópicos, seguiam com sua política de higienização do espaço urbano e combate às epidemias, a população paraense persistia na busca de alívio de suas mazelas nas tradicionais artes de curar. No entanto, se a medicina popular constitui-se em um dos maiores empecilhos para a afirmação dos médicos acadêmicos como senhores da cura, a desunião, a falta de ética e consenso no interior da classe médica não deixaram de ser alguns dos fatores marcantes do descrédito que pairava sobre a figura dos representantes da medicina oficial em plena República brasileira. Para enfrentar tantos problemas, os médicos, pouco a pouco, procuram superar suas diferenças e criaram regras e laços de solidariedade capazes de uni-los em torno de objetivos em comum, consolidando uma identidade de grupo que fortaleceu sua corporação e lutou pelo prestígio e poder que eles tanto almejavam.

Essays in Behavioral Personnel Economics

The thesis contemplates 4 papers and its main goal is to provide evidence on the prominent impact that behavioral analysis can play into the personnel economics domain.The research tool prevalently used in the thesis is the experimental analysis.The first paper provide laboratory evidence on how the standard screening model–based on the assumption that the pecuniary dimension represents the main workers’choice variable–fails when intrinsic motivation is introduced into the analysis.The second paper explores workers’ behavioral reactions when dealing with supervisors that may incur in errors in the assessment of their job performance.In particular,deserving agents that have exerted high effort may not be rewarded(Type-I errors)and undeserving agents that have exerted low effort may be rewarded(Type-II errors).Although a standard neoclassical model predicts both errors to be equally detrimental for effort provision,this prediction fails when tested through a laboratory experiment.Findings from this study suggest how failing to reward deserving agents is significantly more detrimental than rewarding undeserving agents.The third paper investigates the performance of two antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on schooling achievement.The study is conducted through a field experiment.Students randomized to the main treatments have been incentivized to cooperate or to compete in order to earn additional exam points.Consistently with the theoretical model proposed in the paper,the level of effort in the competitive scheme proved to be higher than in the cooperative setting.Interestingly however,this result is characterized by a strong gender effect.The fourth paper exploits a natural experiment setting generated by the credit crunch occurred in the UK in the2007.The economic turmoil has negatively influenced the private sector,while public sector employees have not been directly hit by the crisis.This shock–through the rise of the unemployment rate and the increasing labor market uncertainty–has generated an exogenous variation in the opportunity cost of maternity leave in private sector labor force.This paper identifies the different responses.

Intraocular pressure during a very high altitude climb

Reports on intraocular pressure (IOP) changes at high altitudes have provided inconsistent and even conflicting

Biological applications of magnetic nanoparticles

In this review an overview about biological applications of magnetic colloidal nanoparticles will be given, which comprises their synthesis, characterization, and in vitro and in vivo applications. The potential future role of magnetic nanoparticles compared to other functional nanoparticles will be discussed by highlighting the possibility of integration with other nanostructures and with existing biotechnology as well as by pointing out the specific properties of magnetic colloids. Current limitations in the fabrication process and issues related with the outcome of the particles in the body will be also pointed out in order to address the remaining challenges for an extended application of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine.

El artículo científico en inglés : aspectos teórico-descriptivos, pedagógicos y computacionales de una modelización sistémico-funcional

Este libro da cuenta de estudios realizados entre 1999 y 2008 en el marco del proyecto “RedACTe: Modelización contextual y lingüística del artículo de investigación, y desarrollo de un sistema de escritura asistida" (Fases I-V: UNCuyo y CONICET).

Reflexiones en torno a la experiencia política reciente de estudiantes de la UNLP

Fil: Camou, Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Reflexiones en torno a la experiencia política reciente de estudiantes de la UNLP

Fil: Camou, Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Reflexiones en torno a la experiencia política reciente de estudiantes de la UNLP

Fil: Camou, Antonio Adolfo Marcial. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.