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Abstract: For medicine, pregnancy is considered a disease and childbirth is part of a surgical protocol. The “clinicalization” of labor involves the intervention of a number of violent and invasive procedures that have been standardized. A process as natural as birth has become a totally unnatural event and manipulated, but […]

If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization of profit, well, you are almost completely right. But what if I told you that some banks were created for completely different reasons, more “human” […]

In South, Central and North America, having health insurance is only half the battle. The other is understanding and learning how to use the systems, when it seems that most of those who really do benefit from health insurance do so after learning the tips and tricks to get the most out of a limited service.

Since the first Gold Rush 160 years ago, Australian history has been tainted by a conflict between mining and indigenous land rights. Aboriginal communities have long been excluded or abandoned by government – forced off their lands into settlements and ignored in terms of health care, resulting in statistics that […]

Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. Among them, tens of thousands of medical students graduate every year from Egyptian universities to join the ranks of […]