Emmanuel Levinas's voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem of alterity or "otherness", which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior responsibility to, difference in relation to the competing movement toward sameness.
Emmanuel Levinas's voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem of alterity or "otherness", which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior responsibility to, difference in relation to the competing movement toward sameness.
Explores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever, also known as Peruvian Verruga or Carrion's disease by Dr. Alberto Leonardo Barton. Graciela S. Alarcon and Renato D. Alarcon recount Barton's persistent work against scepticism, obstacles, and limitations imposed by members of Peru's medical elites of the time.