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COVID 19 PLACES: ECUADOR

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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.

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

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Rhetoric Team Description

Ian Ferris describes the methods and focus of the Rhetoric Field Team of the Austin Anthropocene Field Campus.

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Emergency response is addressed in the article through actions taken by health organizations in threat of an epidemic, national boards use emergency response as a way of protecting  their country  from disease, even though this is most effective through research and prevention. The idea of emergency response is global health security- in keeping the US healthy from epidemics in the past; we were not prepared for AIDS or swine flu.

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The main findings presented in the article is that finding accurate data on violence to healthcare workers is difficult, there are many types of violence and the incidents may not be reported due to fear the participants in the event may have chose not to report them. Violence can also be defined in many different ways creating discrepancies in reporting.

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“With this promising technology, though, arrived a whole series of risks,catastrophic boiler explosions being the most dramatic and the deadliest.”

 

“Dr. Astweh-Asel had no idea then how serendipitous and how surprisingly rare this meeting between investigator and wreckage would come to seem in the weeks and months ahead.”

 

“ No one argued with him over these reinventions in principal, but he was thwarted time and time again over the next fifteen years as he tried to defend them in practice.”