CAPITALISMO, CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y COLONIALIDAD

Capitalismo, ciencias sociales y colonialidad

I pretend to analyze the relationships between capitalism, coloniality and social sciences from the Latinamerican decolonial st1000nm0008 perspective.From the outset I defend the thesis that the brutal use of blacks and blacks, Indians and Indians, in the extraction of an invaluable amount of gold and silver in America, served as a historical condi

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Comorbidity of mental ill-health in tuberculosis patients under treatment in a rural province of South Africa: a cross-sectional survey

Objectives Tuberculosis (TB) remains prevalent despite the availability of effective anti-TB medications, and accumulating evidence suggests a high rate of mental disorders in people with TB.This is because TB and psychiatric disorders share several risk factors, such as poverty, homelessness and substance use disorder.Moreover, psychiatric comorbi

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The relationship of sex and sexual orientation to self-esteem, body shape satisfaction, and eating disorder symptomatology

There is increasing interest in understanding what role, if any, sex and sexual orientation play in body dissatisfaction, its correlates to distress, and its relationship to disordered eating.The goals of the present study were to examine: (a) differences in sex and sexual orientation in internalization of societal pressure to modify physical appea

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