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Spring 2008
39:2

April 2008

From the President
by ERIC HERSHBERG

From the Associate Editor
by ANTONIO SÉRGIO A. GUIMARÃES

ON THE PROFESSION

La tortuosa ruta de la investigación social para los jóvenes en Centroamérica
por JUAN PABLO PÉREZ SÁINZ

The Benefits of a Community-Based Approach to Graduate Student Mentoring
by FLORENCIA E. MALLON

Mentoring Past the Ruins
by ALBERTO MOREIRAS

Notes from an Old Anthropologist to the Young Ones
by MARIZA CORRÊA

DEBATES / Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Health

Towards a Social Analysis of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases in Latin America
by FERNANDO DE MAIO, STEPHEN CORBER and MICHEL JOFFRES

Lifelong AIDS: Markets, Politics, and Survival in Brazil
by JOÃO BIEHL

Why Health Inequalities Are Political—And Why LASA Members Should Care
by CHARLES L. BRIGGS and CLARA MANTINI-BRIGGS

What the United States Can Learn from Social Security Reforms in Latin America
by CARMELO MESA-LAGO

CALLING ALL MEMBERS

Nominations: Bryce Wood Book Award, Premio Iberoamericano Book Award, LASA Media Award, LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship

Martin Diskin Dissertation Award

NEWS FROM LASA

LASA2007 Survey Report
by CHARLES R. HALE and MILAGROS PEREYRA-ROJAS

LASA Voluntary Support
by SANDY KLINZING

LASA Membership Report

ON LASA2009

Information and Forms for the Film Festival and Book Exhibit

LASA SECTIONS

Section Reports

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