Medical liability defined by guidelines

Italian law no. 24/2017 introduces a conformity assessment procedure to a behavioral pattern in case of an adverse occurrence committed by a sanitary professional: this one will be not stated criminally liable if his conduct has been recognized as compliant with guidelines. This paper analyzes the mech-anism provided by Italian Act which is considered a useful instrument for managing the systemic com-plexity, but also a "shield" to defend the health profession. Despite some difficulties due to different factors (scientific and technological advance, prevention and control of clinical risk, enormous and sometimes unreliable flow of medical knowledge) the application of the standards appears to protect healthy workers from accusations and social tensions by allowing for the actual circumstance. The subject matter of my investigation will be both of Italian policies about public health and Risk Man-agement and of most significant judgments about doctor\u2019s liability as Italian Courts have taken more up medical malpractice. It will come out an inducement to contextualize the damage in a relativistic and interactionist perspective

Online Credibility and Information Labor: Infrastructure Reverberating through Ethos

This chapter examines how information infrastructure influences ethos in information labor. The primary text is discourse about ACID3, a web page created by members of the Web Standards Project. ACID3 tests the compliance of infrastructural standards for web browsers. In addition to analyzing ACID3 code, several other related conference presentations, job announcements, and web pages are analyzed to theorize ACID3 as a rhetorical text. This chapter argues that three rhetorical commonplaces (mastery, purity, infallibility) are central for the credibility of ACID3 as a text of legitimacy. This study provides a better understanding of rhetoric and infrastructure. To understand rhetorics of infrastructural standardization is to understand the power structures embedded within the modern world. ACID3 is a significant case because of its criticality for standards that enable publics to publish Web content. This chapter contributes to literature in information infrastructural studies, science and technology studies, and the rhetoric of science