This paper addresses intercultural communication possibilities of a variety of care and health professionals in a private health organisation of Cordoba with a diverse patient population. The aim of this paper is to identify different elements present in an effective communication with those patients. Previous studies are considered to have overlooked this reality, even though it is of vital importance in communication between patients and health professionals, as it can result in misunderstandings, misdiagnosis and dissatisfaction with care on the one hand, and labor dissatisfaction on the other. In this study included the patients' own perceptions of their ability to communicate with the professionals. The participant observation technique was used during eight weeks and surveys were carried out with doctors from different specialties, nurses, as well as outpatients and inpatients at t...

At the multiethnic and multicultural colonial Paraguay’s space, some people played a central role as intermediaries between different cultural traditions. Within this context, in the reducciones de indios emerged a new kind of actors who displayed a diversity of strategies in order to preserve indigenous welfare as self-profit. These were the guaraní leaders, a kind of cultural bridges as well as political and economic agents because of the daily practices they play in thecolonial society.

At the multiethnic and multicultural colonial Paraguay’s space, some people played a central role as intermediaries between different cultural traditions. Within this context, in the reducciones de indios emerged a new kind of actors who displayed a diversity of strategies in order to preserve indigenous welfare as self-profit. These were the guaraní leaders, a kind of cultural bridges as well as political and economic agents because of the daily practices they play in thecolonial society.

A partir de una investigación conducida en la localidad de Embalse, en la provincia de Córdoba, analizamos en este artículo la construcción social del riesgo en la vida cotidiana de ciudadanos y familiares de trabajadores de la central nuclear. Las supuestas amenazas representadas por la central constituyen un ápice de la dimensión trágica atribuida histórica y culturalmente a la actividad nuclear. Si bien desde el accidente de Fukushima en Japón el temor a los accidentes y la aprehensión como una rutina practicada en la central comenzaron a tomar más fuerza que tiempo atrás, lo cierto es que estos posibles riesgos fueron contrapuestos también con la necesidad de mantener los puestos de trabajo y con la necesidad de comenzar a generar energías limpias y, de esa forma, intentar disminuir el impacto ambiental.Frente a estas cuestiones, que movilizan a distintos actores social...

At the multiethnic and multicultural colonial Paraguay’s space, some people played a central role as intermediaries between different cultural traditions. Within this context, in the reducciones de indios emerged a new kind of actors who displayed a diversity of strategies in order to preserve indigenous welfare as self-profit. These were the guaraní leaders, a kind of cultural bridges as well as political and economic agents because of the daily practices they play in thecolonial society.

This paper determines the path followed by Flavia, a woman victim of gender-based violence, who left her home in the province of La Rioja and moved to a small community in the northwest of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, with her two daughters. Based on the ethnographic work carried out, we analyze the search for and construction of a home from the vulnerability approach. The fieldwork allows us to explore how women and their families which have experienced situations of gender-based violence live in «vulnerable homes» and were able to rebuild themselves by relying on family ties and social support networks in order to rebuild a home. This work also allows us to observe how the notion of vulnerability was used in different situations or scenarios as a moral and bureaucratic resource both, by public authorities to select those to protect, and by vulnerable people, to claim their ri...