G Aron Ramirez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Aron Ramirez |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Aron |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramirez |
| SIGNATURE | RAMIREZ G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8834-5158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pandemics, populism and bioethics
Dead Food, the Political Economy of Disease and Climate Injustice
In this article, the author argues that unchecked political power held by big corporations is one of the most important factors driving the proliferation of ineffective public policies against hunger and climate change. One of the most pressing ethical issues, that currently receives little attention in bioethics, is the normalization of tolerance toward structural injustice in institutions and organizations that have the responsibility of leadin…
Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and the Empty Promise of Black Homeownership
Andrew Kahrl has gifted the field a forceful book that urges us to remember the property taxes. The Black Tax tells us, “The property tax is the most local of all taxes” (5). More than that, though, the property tax is the most literal way that state policy hits close to home. Kahrl thus studies local taxation to show how white people wielded state power to threaten Black Americans’ tenuous grip on property ownership—and generate handsome profits…
Good principles, badly applied
Business as Usual
This article examines the entrepreneurial and consumptive habits of Mexican Americans in Downey, California, during the 1980s and 1990s. It shows how Mexican Americans avoided ethnic entrepreneurship as they moved into and became the demographic plurality of middle-class Downey. By relying on existing networks of ethnic commerce, Mexican Americans in Downey could simultaneously partake of ethnic entrepreneurship or consumption while acceding to a…
Black Latina Passages through Colonial Ecologies of Illness and the Art of Composting Aesthetics
Drawing from Black Latinx and feminist thought to place Latinx Studies and medical/health humanities in conversation, this project asks, what are the medical and colonial histories, personal and collective, that inform patients' perceptions of illness and Western biomedicine? What happens in cases when Latinx patients have internalized historical forms of medical violence, and what are the means by which Latinx patients construct their healing th…
South Central Dreams
Reproductive Justice
South we hope to promote academic discussions that shift the focus towards a plurality of global South perspectives on issues related to reproductive justice (RJ).The goal is at least two-fold: to promote a space for counterhegemonic analyses and to expand the dialogue on reproductive justice.This special issue covers a wide range of themes and research questions, as well as a diverse participation of scholars working in the intersection between …
Bioethics in the Times of Contagious Populism
As I write this short piece, several social protests are happening in Costa Rica, where I live. The messages that protestors are sending out are very confusing, even contradictory. However, in the midst of this chaos, it’s still possible to identify certain emotions and narratives. There is plenty of frustration, fear, anger. The economic crisis exacerbated by COVID-19 has caused an increase in unemployment, which had already been growing rapidly…
Build that wall! Vaccine certificates, passes and passports, the distribution of harms and decolonial global health justice
The implementation of COVID-19 vaccine certificates or passports entails many difficult issues, both technical and ethical. Looking at the ethical issues from a decolonial approach to justice, it is possible to observe that some of them are embedded in long-standing forms of inequality and exclusion, rooted in the legacy of colonialist/imperialist governance. In this paper, my purpose is to explore the potential harms associated with the enforcem…
Violencia obstétrica en América Latina
correspondiente autora y no se utilice la obra con fines comerciales
The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against reproductive and sexual rights movements occurring in the region. First we summarize the film's key themes, including the assertion that Catholicism is fundamental to Mexican and Central American identities and that the internation…
La violencia obstétrica
Este artículo contiene algunos resultados preliminares de un proyecto de investigación cuyo objetivo es teorizar acerca de la violencia obstétrica a partir del caso de Costa Rica. Para ello, propone un concepto teórico novedoso: el poder obstétrico. A partir de dicho estudio, este trabajo retoma fuentes teóricas relevantes y evidencia empírica relacionadas con el tema. Se considera que, entre las teorías disponibles, la desarrollada por Michel Fo…
Inequidades socio-espaciales en el acceso a los medicamentos en Costa Rica
Se analizan las inequidades socioespaciales en el acceso a medicamentos en Costa Rica a partir de una encuesta dirigida a farmacias comunitarias y entrevistas con informantes claves del contexto sociosanitario. La encuesta a farmacia se basó en un muestreo aleatorio estratificado según el índice de desarrollo social y se enfocó hacia las preguntas sobre el precio de diez medicamentos de acuerdo con el perfil epidemiológico. Las entrevistas a info…
La violencia obstétrica
Este artículo contiene algunos resultados preliminares de un proyecto de investigación cuyo objetivo es teorizar acerca de la violencia obstétrica a partir del caso de Costa Rica. Para ello, propone un concepto teórico novedoso: el poder obstétrico. A partir de dicho estudio, este trabajo retoma fuentes teóricas relevantes y evidencia empírica relacionadas con el tema. Se considera que, entre las teorías disponibles, la desarrollada por Michel Fo…
The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against reproductive and sexual rights movements occurring in the region. First we summarize the film's key themes, including the assertion that Catholicism is fundamental to Mexican and Central American identities and that the internation…
Inequidades socio-espaciales en el acceso a los medicamentos en Costa Rica
Se analizan las inequidades socioespaciales en el acceso a medicamentos en Costa Rica a partir de una encuesta dirigida a farmacias comunitarias y entrevistas con informantes claves del contexto sociosanitario. La encuesta a farmacia se basó en un muestreo aleatorio estratificado según el índice de desarrollo social y se enfocó hacia las preguntas sobre el precio de diez medicamentos de acuerdo con el perfil epidemiológico. Las entrevistas a info…
La violencia obstétrica
Este artículo contiene algunos resultados preliminares de un proyecto de investigación cuyo objetivo es teorizar acerca de la violencia obstétrica a partir del caso de Costa Rica. Para ello, propone un concepto teórico novedoso: el poder obstétrico. A partir de dicho estudio, este trabajo retoma fuentes teóricas relevantes y evidencia empírica relacionadas con el tema. Se considera que, entre las teorías disponibles, la desarrollada por Michel Fo…
The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against reproductive and sexual rights movements occurring in the region. First we summarize the film's key themes, including the assertion that Catholicism is fundamental to Mexican and Central American identities and that the internation…
Violencia obstétrica en América Latina
correspondiente autora y no se utilice la obra con fines comerciales
Bioethics in the Times of Contagious Populism
As I write this short piece, several social protests are happening in Costa Rica, where I live. The messages that protestors are sending out are very confusing, even contradictory. However, in the midst of this chaos, it’s still possible to identify certain emotions and narratives. There is plenty of frustration, fear, anger. The economic crisis exacerbated by COVID-19 has caused an increase in unemployment, which had already been growing rapidly…
Build that wall! Vaccine certificates, passes and passports, the distribution of harms and decolonial global health justice
The implementation of COVID-19 vaccine certificates or passports entails many difficult issues, both technical and ethical. Looking at the ethical issues from a decolonial approach to justice, it is possible to observe that some of them are embedded in long-standing forms of inequality and exclusion, rooted in the legacy of colonialist/imperialist governance. In this paper, my purpose is to explore the potential harms associated with the enforcem…
Reproductive Justice
South we hope to promote academic discussions that shift the focus towards a plurality of global South perspectives on issues related to reproductive justice (RJ).The goal is at least two-fold: to promote a space for counterhegemonic analyses and to expand the dialogue on reproductive justice.This special issue covers a wide range of themes and research questions, as well as a diverse participation of scholars working in the intersection between …
Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and the Empty Promise of Black Homeownership
Andrew Kahrl has gifted the field a forceful book that urges us to remember the property taxes. The Black Tax tells us, “The property tax is the most local of all taxes” (5). More than that, though, the property tax is the most literal way that state policy hits close to home. Kahrl thus studies local taxation to show how white people wielded state power to threaten Black Americans’ tenuous grip on property ownership—and generate handsome profits…
Good principles, badly applied
Business as Usual
This article examines the entrepreneurial and consumptive habits of Mexican Americans in Downey, California, during the 1980s and 1990s. It shows how Mexican Americans avoided ethnic entrepreneurship as they moved into and became the demographic plurality of middle-class Downey. By relying on existing networks of ethnic commerce, Mexican Americans in Downey could simultaneously partake of ethnic entrepreneurship or consumption while acceding to a…
Black Latina Passages through Colonial Ecologies of Illness and the Art of Composting Aesthetics
Drawing from Black Latinx and feminist thought to place Latinx Studies and medical/health humanities in conversation, this project asks, what are the medical and colonial histories, personal and collective, that inform patients' perceptions of illness and Western biomedicine? What happens in cases when Latinx patients have internalized historical forms of medical violence, and what are the means by which Latinx patients construct their healing th…
South Central Dreams
Pandemics, populism and bioethics
Dead Food, the Political Economy of Disease and Climate Injustice
In this article, the author argues that unchecked political power held by big corporations is one of the most important factors driving the proliferation of ineffective public policies against hunger and climate change. One of the most pressing ethical issues, that currently receives little attention in bioethics, is the normalization of tolerance toward structural injustice in institutions and organizations that have the responsibility of leadin…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Bioethics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Abortion (2 works)