Guilt, daily life, and love : AIDS narratives in the time of triple therapies

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the portrayal of triple therapy (a combination of three antiviral drugs proposed at the Vancouver International AIDS Conference in 1996) in three literary texts belonging to the Latin American HIV-positive corpus. Our aim is to track the changes in relation to previous AIDS narratives in three areas: feelings of guilt, everyday life and the search for love/eroticism. The selected corpus consists on the autobiography Un año sin amor. Diario del sida (1998) by the Argentine author Pablo Pérez, the novel La promesante (2001) by the Nicaraguan writer Rosario Aguilar and the chronicle Vivir con virus. Relatos de la vida cotidiana (2004) by the Argentine journalist Marta Dillon

PAISAJES (NEO)GÓTICOS EN LA NOVELA LOS SUSURROS DE PERSEO DE JOSÉ RICARDO CHAVES

El propósito de este artículo es analizar los elementos (neo)góticos en las formas de representación del paisaje, en la novela Los sussurros de Perseo del escritor costarricense José Ricardo Chaves. A partir de ejemplos concretos, intentaré demostrar cómo algunos rasgos góticos en la representación del paisaje son resignificados y tratados desde una distancia irónica. El paisaje se utiliza de manera crítica para poner en evidencia problemas de gran vigencia como la xenofobia o la homofobia

La ceguera y el cine. A propósito de Los abrazos rotos de Pedro Almodóvar

págs.: 151-169Capítulo incluido en el libro: El cine de Almodóvar. Una poética de lo "trans". Pedro Poyato Sánchez (Editor). Sevilla: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 2015. ISBN: 978-84-7993-267-1. Enlace: http://hdl.handle.net/10334/365

Jorge Luis Borges y la otredad inquietante

Este ensayo ha sido estructurado a partir de la consigna de meditar las posibles relaciones entre filosofía y literatura desde la escritura de Jorge Luis Borges. Propongo que la lectura del texto filosófico, entre otros, le permitió al autor argentino adelantarse casi 30 años a las postulaciones de la teoría literaria postestructuralista. A partir de la lectura de Discusión, libro que recoge ensayos escritos entre 1928 y 1932, intento probar que los conceptos de texto, intertextualidad y el binomio lectura/escritura ya estaban presentes en la visión borgeana de la literatura

En la triste calma de tu sueño. Lectura de dos textos de Gabr iel García Márquez: “El avión de la bella durmiente ” y Memoria de mis putas tristes

A lo largo de su vasta obra narrativa (cuento y novela) el escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez ha representado distintos tipos de amor. El propósito de esta ponencia es analizar el extraño tipo de amor que aparece en el relato “El avión de la bella durmiente” que pertenece al volumen 12 cuentos peregrinos (1992) y su versión posterior en la novela Memoria de mis putas tristes (2004). Se trata de una versión del amor por una mujer dormida que no responde a las demandas del amante y que, a pesar de su gran erotismo, excluye el sexo

Convergencias transculturales en el Caribe y Centroamérica

Editores: Mauricio Chaves, Werner Mackenbach, Héctor Pérez BrignoliLos ensayos recopilados en este libro se basan en trabajos presentados en el Simposio Internacional: Convergencias transculturales en el Caribe. Literatura, arte, cultura, historia, comunicación realizada en noviembre de 2015 en la Universidad de Costa Rica.4 Exploran algunas dimensiones de los “entrecruzamientos”, “branchementes” y “entanglements” entre Centroamérica y el Caribe).UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC

Prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of pressure injuries in adult intensive care unit patients: the DecubICUs study

Funder: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100013347Funder: Flemish Society for Critical Care NursesAbstract: Purpose: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are particularly susceptible to developing pressure injuries. Epidemiologic data is however unavailable. We aimed to provide an international picture of the extent of pressure injuries and factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries in adult ICU patients. Methods: International 1-day point-prevalence study; follow-up for outcome assessment until hospital discharge (maximum 12 weeks). Factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injury and hospital mortality were assessed by generalised linear mixed-effects regression analysis. Results: Data from 13,254 patients in 1117 ICUs (90 countries) revealed 6747 pressure injuries; 3997 (59.2%) were ICU-acquired. Overall prevalence was 26.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 25.9–27.3). ICU-acquired prevalence was 16.2% (95% CI 15.6–16.8). Sacrum (37%) and heels (19.5%) were most affected. Factors independently associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries were older age, male sex, being underweight, emergency surgery, higher Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, Braden score 3 days, comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency), organ support (renal replacement, mechanical ventilation on ICU admission), and being in a low or lower-middle income-economy. Gradually increasing associations with mortality were identified for increasing severity of pressure injury: stage I (odds ratio [OR] 1.5; 95% CI 1.2–1.8), stage II (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.4–1.9), and stage III or worse (OR 2.8; 95% CI 2.3–3.3). Conclusion: Pressure injuries are common in adult ICU patients. ICU-acquired pressure injuries are associated with mainly intrinsic factors and mortality. Optimal care standards, increased awareness, appropriate resource allocation, and further research into optimal prevention are pivotal to tackle this important patient safety threat

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Prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of pressure injuries in adult intensive care unit patients: the DecubICUs study

Funder: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100013347Funder: Flemish Society for Critical Care NursesAbstract: Purpose: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are particularly susceptible to developing pressure injuries. Epidemiologic data is however unavailable. We aimed to provide an international picture of the extent of pressure injuries and factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries in adult ICU patients. Methods: International 1-day point-prevalence study; follow-up for outcome assessment until hospital discharge (maximum 12 weeks). Factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injury and hospital mortality were assessed by generalised linear mixed-effects regression analysis. Results: Data from 13,254 patients in 1117 ICUs (90 countries) revealed 6747 pressure injuries; 3997 (59.2%) were ICU-acquired. Overall prevalence was 26.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 25.9–27.3). ICU-acquired prevalence was 16.2% (95% CI 15.6–16.8). Sacrum (37%) and heels (19.5%) were most affected. Factors independently associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries were older age, male sex, being underweight, emergency surgery, higher Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, Braden score 3 days, comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency), organ support (renal replacement, mechanical ventilation on ICU admission), and being in a low or lower-middle income-economy. Gradually increasing associations with mortality were identified for increasing severity of pressure injury: stage I (odds ratio [OR] 1.5; 95% CI 1.2–1.8), stage II (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.4–1.9), and stage III or worse (OR 2.8; 95% CI 2.3–3.3). Conclusion: Pressure injuries are common in adult ICU patients. ICU-acquired pressure injuries are associated with mainly intrinsic factors and mortality. Optimal care standards, increased awareness, appropriate resource allocation, and further research into optimal prevention are pivotal to tackle this important patient safety threat

SEXO, CUERPO E IDENTIDAD EN EL TIEMPO PRINCIPIA EN XIBALBÁ DE LUIS DE LIÓN

El presente ensayo es una propuesta de lectura de la novela del escritor guatemalteco Luis de Lión, titulada El tiempo principia en Xibalbá. Dicha obra, publicada en edición póstuma en 1973, cuandosu autor había sido desaparecido por el ejército, constituye un texto central para la historia de la literatura centroamericana por dos motivos fundamentales: su carácter innovador en el plano del estilo y la introducción de la sexualidad como elemento central de la escritura. Nuestro análisis tiene como sustento teórico, por una parte, la concepción de la sexualidad de Michel Foucault, y por otra, las propuestas en torno al sexo del psicoanálisis lacaniano. Todo lo anterior está guiado por tres ejes estructurantes de la novela, que son: la sexualidad, la etnicidad y el poder, en tanto elementos clave para la constitución de una (im)posible identidad nacional y subjetiva