Discapacidad psicosocial. La gestión del trastorno psíquico entre Psiquiatría y Derecho

La discapacidad psíquica y la perspectiva particular que constituye el punto de apoyo de esta intervención es un nivel que comparte la tensión normativa, histórica y descriptivamente, activa entre la ley y la psiquiatría en el manejo de la enfermedad psíquica

La disabilità mentale tra vulnerabilità soggettiva e controllo sociale. Il caso della sofferenza psichica

Disability has become an increasing subject of concern under the legal and political contemporary debate. In this context, many scholars have focused the problem of the legal qualification of the disability subject as a topic connected to the European case law on the vulnerable groups. Especially in the EHCR’s decisions, mental disability has often been considered as a special case on which the Judges have grounded a “social” model of vulnerability even if, for mental illness, quite different are the perspectives emerging from the European case law. The different considerations of mental disability enable us to face the structural ambiguity of the category, because of the distinct capabilities of the subjects involved in it. In this article, after some brief historical references on law and psychiatry, the Author discusses the condition of the subject affected by mental disorder under the main institutional issues regarding the legal perspective, between individual protection and social contro

Diritto dell'ambiente e amministrazione del rischio. Il principio di precauzione in condizioni di incertezza scientifica

Tanto nelle premesse che ne definiscono la specificità nel campo del sapere giuridico, quanto per la qualificazione dei beni oggetto della sua tutela, il diritto ambientale si colloca in un orizzonte filosofico che riguarda un modo di pensare alla relazione tra l’essere umano e il mondo che lo circonda. È un tema complesso, del quale, per ovvie ragioni, non è dato esplorare tutte le implicazioni in questa sede. Va tuttavia almeno rilevato, in considerazione delle questioni che saranno trattate di seguito, che se si dovesse ricercare un diretto precipitato di questa riflessione filosofica, lo si ritroverebbe senz’altro nel consolidarsi del termine “ambiente” nel campo della scienza giuridica. Ne contesto di questi temi, il saggio si concentra sul principio di precauzione in materia ambientale

E-learning, language education and the role of writing : a case study

This case study of a Swiss adult-learning institution investigates changing literacy practices and skills in adult foreign language education with relation to e-Iearning and with reference to the role of writing. Aspects concerning autonomous learning, teaching presence, and factors influencing the e-learning adoption-innovation process including access, pedagogical and policy-making implications were examined. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It is underpinned by thinking in the New literacy Studies tradition and hopes to fill an existing gap in research, as much of the available literature seems to focus on children or higher education. The main results indicate that currently there is a mix of, on the one hand, low digitally skilled and reluctant teacher-adopters and, on the other, highly enthusiastic an~ digitally motivated ones, There is also an indication that access to simple infrastructure, with a relatively small investment, could produce good results in helping practitioners move along the path from innovation to adoption. Digital literacies and changes in literacy practices tend to put writing at the centre of communication. Writing is intended both as a subject area and as a means of communicating digitally, The results also reveal that the role of writing is closely linked to whether practitioners and learners alike consider the communicative value of writing to be on par with communication using the spoken word, i.e, whether collaborative writing in particular can be considered 'talk', The data points to a joint need by policy-makers and practitioners to acknowledge new digital literacy practices and to include them in a holistic way in local contexts and curricula, It also points to the need for institutions to take responsibility for providing links between research and practice and to provide integrated training in the field of e-learning and blended learning

Lost in translation. Cosa prendere (e cosa lasciare) del dibattito americano su diritto e neuroscienze.

Recently, the scientific debate on the relationship between law and cognitive neurosciences has sensibly developed, so much that some argues about the necessity to consider this relationship as a new field of legal disciplines. Several are the issues that should be taken into account, such as the value of neuroscientific opinions and reports within the legal proceeding or the evolution of the concept of legal competence. From a philosophical viewpoint, these new scientific developments call for a re-evaluation of the concept of legal personhood and for a reconsideration of traditional concepts, such as the notion of free will. The aim of the paper is to address the ai issues that the e elatioship etee la ad euosiences is raising, offering some possible solution for the integration of neuroscientific concepts in the legal discourse

INSEGUROS Y LIBRES: VULNERABILIDAD Y RESILENCIA EN EL LÉXICO POLÍTICO-JURÍDICO DEL NEOLIBERALISMO1

Over the past few years, the political and legal debate of government’s new strategies about social complexity has been followed by the representation of individual and collective increasing vulnerability imposed by the process of transformation that has affected the concept of risk. The scenario returned by threat exposure coming from the representation of global political uncertainty actives human decision in a perspective that changes concept and historical form that risk definition process offered to modern society. In these terms, either vulnerability concept or resilience model functionalize a representation describing the exposition to uncertainty offered by the crisis of the calculable risk definition: they conceptually return to an appeal of explicative ability of categories and meanings attributed by theories of complexity borrowers of an epistemological approach of natural science defining the possible government policy in a scenario characterized by fast and unpredictable change

Use of phytotherapics in dogs and cats.

Phytotherapy is one of the most utilized non conventional medicines (NCM) both in human and veterinary medicine. It can be used to mitigate and prevent slight diseases and to support conventional medicine using allopathic drugs. In this paper the Authors report the phytoterapeutics most utilized in both dogs and cats, in which the use of phytotherapics is increasing, despite the prejudices of the academic world and of the veterinary practitioners. Laws regarding the use of non conventional medicines in veterinary practises are lacking in Italy, despite many other countries in Europe; yet National Federation of Italian Veterinaries (F.N.O.V.I.) asserted that the use of NCM has to be considered a veterinary practise at all. At the end of this paper, the Authors provided many examples of phytotheapic prescriptions to control different illness in both dogs and cats

Time related inhibition by methylguanidine in LPS-stimulated J774A.1 macrophages

Methylguanidine (MG) is a nitrogen compound deriving from protein catabolism that accumulates in Chronic kidney disease (CKD). Changes in monocyte functions have been recognised as one of the most important key factor responsible for the immunological disorders associated with uremia and it has been demonstrated that high blood concentrations of nitrogen compounds, as MG, could be responsible of immunodisfunctions associated to uremic syndrome. Inducibie nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cycloxygenase-2 (COX-2) and their respective metabolites, nitric oxide and prostaglandins, are a crucial step both in the activation of immunoresponsive cells and in the mechanism of citotoxicity, NO mediated. It has been previously reported the ability of MG to inhibit iNOS activity and expression both in vitro and in vivo. The aim of this study is to evaluate if MG could interfere with macrophagic immunoresponses also modulating iNOS and COX-2 at different time of incubation in J774A.1 stimulated with Lipopolysahharide from E.coli. Our results demonstrated that MG exerted inhibitory effect on iNOS and COX-2. These effects are related to incubation time thus highliting the detrimental effect of immune system by MG in uremic conditions

From Citizenship to Resilience. The European Legal Approach to Migration through its Changing Political Paradigms

Migration movements, with all the related issues regarding their regulation, are at the very heart of today’s European legal and political debate. Migration is a theme whose criticism is going to put Europe in a “process of disintegration”. Despite this Criticisms, if we consider European Modern Legal and Political Thought, Migration recalls concepts quite different from its actual consideration: a natural right, both for natural law theories and some liberal scholars; an individual status, in the perspective of the legal and political order, that is concerned by the same conceptual framework belonging to citizenship (borders, territory, sovereignty), both within a “nation state’s imaginary”