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Disabilities, practices and research: challenging the social sciences is a compilation by Andrea Verónica Pérez and Antonella Raponelli that brings together works referring to disability as a social and political construction within the framework of a collective network of researchers, activists and teachers. The book is organized in two sections. The first refers to epistemological constructs centered on the notion of disability and its revision from Latin America; the second, recovers practices and research, located mainly in the educational field. It has sixteen chapters, written by authors who invite us to challenge the social sciences in a Latin American key. ; Discapacidades, prácticas e investigación: interpelando a las ciencias sociales es una compilación de Andrea Verónica Pérez y Antonella Rapanelli que reúne trabajos en referencia a la discapacidad como construcción social y política en el marco de un recorrido colectivo de investigadores, activistas y docentes en red. El libro se organiza en dos apartados. El primero, refiere a constructos epistemológicos centrados en la noción de discapacidad y su revisión desde América Latina; el segundo, recupera practicas e investigaciones, ubicadas principalmente en el campo educativo. Cuenta con dieciséis capítulos, escritos por autores que nos invitan a interpelar a las ciencias sociales en clave latinoamericana.

<p>Erythrocyte alterations require making decisions, guiding clinical conduct, determining prognoses, and choosing therapy options for diseases. Automated devices that can perform blood cell counts allow for calculation of amplitude distribution of erythrocytes red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and its fractions (RDW-CV and RDW-SD). It also evaluates quantitatively the heterogeneity of each erythrocyte, especially in the feline species where presence of anisocytosis is common, even under normal conditions. Contrary to human medicine where there has been universal acceptance of RDW, there are only a handful of veterinarians and laboratories that currently use this parameter as a diagnostic tool for differential laboratory diagnosis of anemia in veterinary medicine, possibly owing to unfamiliarity with the application. Faced with limited availability of information in scientific literature regarding RDW values for the domestic cat, this study aimed to associate RDW values with erythrocytes, hematocrit, hemoglobin, and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) in 407 adult cats of no defined pedigree (n = 218 males and n = 189 females; 335 non-anemic and 72 anemic). In the present study, RDW-SD values in anemic cats were 20.4% above those considered normal, while RDW-CV values were 25.2% higher than those considered normal for the species. We concluded that interpretation of RDW values is an important tool for evaluating heterogeneity of erythrocytes with regard to anemia. Even in non-anemic animals, increased levels of RDW may suggest early erythrocyte alterations.</p>