Sekularizacija i eklezijastična ideologija: radna hipoteza

Preveo: Srđan Vrcan. (S dopuštenjem redakcije preuzeto iz »Social Compass«, 24 (1977) 4, str. 383—405.

Maria Pia Donato, Sudden Death. Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Paru en italien sous le titre de Morti improvvise. Medicina e religione nel Settecento en 2010 (Bologne), cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la vague de morts subites qui toucha Rome et alarma Clément XI entre 1705 et 1706. L’auteure affirme vouloir respecter la méthode d’enquête historique, qu’elle définit dans les termes suivants : « Étudier les configurations du passé par elles-mêmes, en se focalisant sur un temps et sur un lieu, en évitant de reparcourir des épisodes du passé pour éclairer des que..

Preserving conceptual model semantics in the forward engineering of relational schemas

Forward engineering relational schemas based on conceptual models (in languages such as UML and ER) is an established practice, with several automated transformation approaches discussed in the literature and implemented in production tools. These transformations must bridge the gap between the primitives offered by conceptual modeling languages on the one hand and the relational model on the other. As a result, it is often the case that some of the semantics of the source conceptual model is lost in the transformation process. In this paper, we address this problem by forward engineering additional constraints along with the transformed schema (ultimately implemented as triggers). We formulate our approach in terms of the operations of “flattening” and “lifting” of classes to make our approach largely independent of the particular transformation strategy (one table per hierarchy, one table per class, one table per concrete class, one table per leaf class, etc.). An automated transformation tool is provided that traces the cumulative consequences of the operations as they are applied throughout the transformation process. We report on tests of this tool using models published in an open model repository

Handling the End-of-Life between Institutions and the Individual

Many factors are involved in defining the changes within the field of death and dying: innovations in medical knowledge and practice; changes in health institutions, family structures and everyday life practices; the pluralism of beliefs and religious affiliations. A new dimension is represented by the emergence of the legitimacy accorded to the individual's decisions in choosing how to handle his end of life. This is no small thing, and, in fact, it has led to the opening of a rather heated debate in the public space. The paper examines some recent cases in order to identify the knotty problems around which the change develops, oppositions are articulated, and instable compromises are reached

Scienza, esperti, media: dalla divulgazione alla negoziazione

l'articolo propone una nuova interpretazione del processo di comunicazione scientifica. Superata l'ipotesi della divulgazione, illustra i contenuti dell'ipotesi della negoziazione, che avviene entro il campo dei media, tra esperti e loro sapere, utilizzatori e mondo della vita quotidiana

L'etica contesa

il saggio si interroga sui cambiamenti avvenuti nella teoria e nella pratica biomedica, sui rapporti tra i diversi attori che intervengono nel campo medico, sulle negoziazioni e sulle soluzioni provvisorie individuate. Una proposta di inquadramento teorico dei cambiamenti registrati fa da ossatura all'articolo

Secolarizzazione. Nodi, conflitti, superamenti

analisi critica degli studi sociologici sulla secolarizzazione, contestualizzati entro l' ambiente culturale di produzion