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COVID 19 PLACES: ECUADOR

This essay supports an upcoming discussion of how COVID-19 is unfolding in Ecuador and a broader discussion within the Transnational STS COVID-19 project.

Shuar Testimony

This audio was sent by Manuel Maiche, community leader of Kuamar, part of the Shuar territory in Ecuador.

Ecuador Place Essay Image

Image created with the use of a free image by Crystal Mirallegro (Unsplash website) for Ecuador's covid19 place essay

Image with rainforest trees on background

Kaleidos - Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography

A research Center at the University of Cuenca with the collaboration of FLACSO-Ecuador

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I read through some information about the Bhopal disaster that was referenced, as well as some other articles on Nuclear Emergency Response. I also found some protocol for Radiation Sickness. (Potassium Iodide, Prussian Blue, DTPA, Neupogen)

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Why doctors need stories

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What actors (individuals or organizations) are referred to? (Provide names and short descriptions)

The author speaks of Dr. Per Bech, a Dutch Psychiatrist, and his co-author Lone Lindberg, and his patient who suffered from mental illness over the course of his life, and how the vignette Bech wrote about this patient had value and relevance for understanding the use of Zoloft.