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No abstract availableRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 49, 1996: 105-117 ; No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 49, 1996: 105-117

A lecture was presented by the author at the Democratic Opinion Forum on Health Teaching and Research, organ­ized by Mexico's National Health Institutes Coordinating Office, at National Cardiology Institute "Ignacio Chavez", where he presented a critical review of the conventional classification of basic and applied science, as well as his per­sonal view on health science teaching and research. Ac­cording to the author, "well-conducted science" is that "generating reality-checked knowledge" and "mis-conduct­ed science" is that "unproductive or producing 'just lies' and 'non-fundable'. To support his views, the author re­views utilitarian and pejorative definitions of science, as well as those of committed and pure science, useful and useless science, and practical and esoterical science, as synonyms of applied and basic science. He also asserts that, in Mexico, "this classification has been used in the past to justify feder­al funding cutbacks to basic science, allegedly because it is not targeted at solving 'national problems' or because it was not relevant to priorities set in a given six-year political administration period". Regarding health education and re­search, the author asserts that the current academic pro­grams are inefficient and ineffective; his proposal to tackle these problems is to carry out a solid scientific study, con­ducted by a multidisciplinary team of experts, "to design the scientific researcher curricula from recruitment of intelligent young people to retirement or death". Perfor­mance assessment of researchers would not be restricted to publication of papers, since "the quality of scientific work and contribution to the development of science is not reflected by the number of published papers". The English version of this paper is available at: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html ; En el contexto de una intervención en el Foro de Consulta Democrática de la Coordinación de los Institutos Nacio­nales de Salud sobre Enseñanza e Investigación en Salud, realizado en el Instituto Nacional ...

Contextos y perspectivas del proceso de paz / Gustavo Porras Castejón -- Prospects for compliance : the Guatemalan military and the peace accords / Jennifer Schirmer -- El problema de la desmilitarización en la Guatemala del post-conflicto armado / Edgar Gutiérrez -- Human rights, land conflict and memories of the violence in the Ixil Country of Nothern Quiché / David Stoll -- Gobernabilidad democráctica y derechos indígenas en Guatemala / Demetrio Cojití Cuxil -- Ethnicity and the Guatemalan Peace Process / Roger Plant -- Customary law and local power in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Reflexiones en torno a la legitimidad del estado, la nación y la identidad en el marco de los Acuerdos de Paz en Guatemala / Marta Elena Casaús Arzú -- Alcances y limitaciones de la Comisión para el esclarecimiento histórico de las violaciones a los derechos humanos y los hechos de violencia que han causado sufrimiento a la población guatemalteca / Marta Altolaguirre -- The right to truth and the right to justice as preconditions for the rule of law / Frank La Rue -- The politics of remembering and forgetting in Guatemala / Richard Wilson -- From guerillas to politicians : the transition of the Guatemalan revolutionary movement in historical and comparative perspective / Anna Vinegrad -- Una reforma política para la paz / Alfonso Portillo -- Los Acuerdos de Paz, los pueblos indígenas y la reforma política / Rosalina Tuyuc

A review essay on a book by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Ewa Kuleza, & Annette Legutke [Eds], The State of Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin: Sigma, 2002).

The historical success of sciences and their tendency to extendt hemselves universally to all of realityis a fact. In order to understand their sense, they should be referred to acultural (rational) project, whose presuppositions ought to be judged in accordance with a reason conceived both as practical (ethical-political) and speculative (philosophical). E. Weil's rigorous thought is here compared in all of these points with high-ranging positions: only after going through Hegelian, Marxian and Weberian positions he intends an original reappropiation of Kantian insights. ; El éxito histórico de la(s) ciencia(s)y su extensión tendencialmente universal a toda realidad es un hecho. Comprender su sentido exige que se le refiera a un proyecto cultural (racional) cuyos supuestos han de ser juzgados conforme a una razón inseparablemente práctica (ético-política) y especulativa (filosofía). Sobre todos estos puntos, el pensamiento riguroso de E. Weil se compara y se contrasta aquí con posiciones de alto vuelo: solamente después de atravesar los planteamientos hegelianos, marxianos y weberianos, es como intenta retomar,de manera original, orientaciones kantianas.

Bulcourf, P., D´Alessandro, M. (2013). La ciencia política en la Argentina : desde sus comienzos hasta los años 80 . Revista de Ciencias Sociales 13, 139-230. ; Este trabajo es una historia "científica e institucional" de la ciencia política argentina. La ciencia política en nuestro país ha sufrido numerosos reveses políticos, institucionales e ideológicos que obstaculizaron su desarrollo, por lo que todavía no ha logrado definitivamente la constitución de una comunidad científica sólida e inserta en la sociedad. Se argumenta que la década del 60 ha sido clave en su proceso constitutivo. A modo de indicadores, se toman en cuenta publicaciones de ciencia política, carreras, asociaciones, centros de investigación, y datos referidos a los itinerarios personales de algunos destacados politólogos argentinos ; This work is a "scientific and institutional" history of Argentine political science. Political science in our country has suffered numerous political, institutional and ideological setbacks that hampered its development, so it has not yet definitively achieved the constitution of a solid scientific community and inserts into society. It is argued that the decade of the 60 has been key in its constitutive process. By way of indicators, political science publications, careers, associations, research centers, and data referring to the personal itineraries of some prominent Argentine political scientists are taken into account.