Chile Combined with Pan Am
Title | Chile Combined with Pan Am PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Chile |
ISBN |
Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today
Title | Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Niss |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 2005-02-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0814758762 |
From Mount Sinai Department of Surgery chairman Arthur H. Afuses, Jr. and archivist Barbara Nuss, an instructional account of Mount Sinai's teaching methods The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews’ Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. In Teaching Tomorrow’s Medicine Today, Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., chairman of Mount Sinai's Department of Surgery, and archivist Barbara Niss chronicle the development of the medical school from its origins in the 1960s to the current leadership. The authors examine the social forces that compelled the world-renowned hospital to remake itself as an academic medical center, revealing the school's departure from and subsequent return to its founders' original vision. In addition to a compelling history of each of Mount Sinai’s departments, Teaching Tomorrow’s Medicine Today describes the school’s methods for providing both graduate or resident training and post-graduate physician education. Recognizing Mount Sinai’s central mission as a teaching institution, the authors close their account with perspectives of alumni and current students.
Chile Today
Title | Chile Today PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Chile |
ISBN |
The Real 'round South America
Title | The Real 'round South America PDF eBook |
Author | William Harman Black |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | South America |
ISBN |
A Trip Around the World Through the Telebinocular
Title | A Trip Around the World Through the Telebinocular PDF eBook |
Author | Burton Holmes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Stereoscopic views |
ISBN |
Victims of the Chilean Miracle
Title | Victims of the Chilean Miracle PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Winn |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2004-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822385856 |
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and society—produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a “miracle” to be emulated by other Latin American countries. But how have Chile’s millions of workers, whose hard labor and long hours have made the miracle possible, fared under this program? Through empirically grounded historical case studies, this volume examines the human underside of the Chilean economy over the past three decades, delineating the harsh inequities that persist in spite of growth, low inflation, and some decrease in poverty and unemployment. Implemented in the 1970s at the point of the bayonet and in the shadow of the torture chamber, the neoliberal policies of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship reversed many of the gains in wages, benefits, and working conditions that Chile’s workers had won during decades of struggle and triggered a severe economic crisis. Later refined and softened, Pinochet’s neoliberal model began, finally, to promote economic growth in the mid-1980s, and it was maintained by the center-left governments that followed the restoration of democracy in 1990. Yet, despite significant increases in worker productivity, real wages stagnated, the expected restoration of labor rights faltered, and gaps in income distribution continued to widen. To shed light on this history and these ongoing problems, the contributors look at industries long part of the Chilean economy—including textiles and copper—and industries that have expanded more recently—including fishing, forestry, and agriculture. They not only show how neoliberalism has affected Chile’s labor force in general but also how it has damaged the environment and imposed special burdens on women. Painting a sobering picture of the two Chiles—one increasingly rich, the other still mired in poverty—these essays suggest that the Chilean miracle may not be as miraculous as it seems. Contributors. Paul Drake Volker Frank Thomas Klubock Rachel Schurman Joel Stillerman Heidi Tinsman Peter Winn
Historical Dictionary of Chile
Title | Historical Dictionary of Chile PDF eBook |
Author | Salvatore Bizzarro |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 1003 |
Release | 2005-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0810865424 |
Surveys the radical changes that have occurred in recent years in every aspect of Chilean life. Features more than 3,000 dictionary entries covering history, politics, geography, economics, the environment, culture, and a myriad other topics that include writers, artists, playwrights, and important figures, many of which were not included in the previous edition. Also included are 24 photographs of the paintings of famous Latin American artists, and an exhaustive bibliography of more than 1,200 resources subdivided by topic and fully annotated.