ABSTRACT
The defense of the autonomy of indigenous peoples in Latin America has a particular manifestation, in the preservation of the territory, often understood, from the relational ontologies of these peoples, as a space for material and symbolic social construction. This particular form is the defense of food sovereignty under the framework of the international standard of the right to the environment and the ontological-epistemic tensions about the notion of territory. The jurisprudence of the inter-american Court of Human Rights provides a floor for discussion on the meaning of territory, based on these ontologies, to discover how it is related to the notion of the environment and the importance of these factors in the preservation of the community existence of the peoples, with special reference to the nahua people of malacachtepec momoxco in mexico city, which has shown, from this framework of understanding, a special resilience to face the covid-19 epidemic. © 2020 Universitat Rovira i Virgili. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed in a significant way the lifestyle in the world and in Mexico. Medicine is not an exception, therefore, modifications in how the assessment and treatment of our patients is done, is mandatory to assure the safeness of the patient, the medical team, the hospital staff, the medical facility, and the community. In this paper, the Mexican Association of Spine Surgery (AMCICO) make recommendations based in the information available at the moment, to help decide when and how to perform a spine surgery in the coronavirus pandemic. Objective: To provide the spine surgeon with the tools required and a decision path to postpone or perform a spine surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic.