LIBRI DI MARIELLA NOCENZI

Il volume costituisce la seconda tappa di un percorso di riflessione sulla soggettività e la dimensione relazionale (la “trama sociale della soggettività”) che SPE intende proseguire, non solo per far fronte alle principali sfide che l’attualità pone al sapere sociologico e alla persona, ma anche per mostrare come la persona stessa possa considerarsi una fondamentale risorsa di senso all’interno del complesso scenario contemporaneo.

In 1971, dottor Potter created, or better, formulated again, in a well-known article, the concept of bioetics: Science of the survival of the humankind in the ecosystem. The three decades that have passed from that famous article have contributed to amplify more and more the research in different fields: medical ethics, relationship between life/death/eutanasia, abortion, clonation, autopoietics potentialities, etc. All these themes have resulted, in the bioetic debate, in a reformulation of the concept, that is a study on human moral choices concerning the problems of the life (and the death) in respect of the technological development. The proposed reflections try to shed light into the complex biocentric model through an approach that gives value to life and does not make it simple and that analyses the complex relationship between the different lives in the ecological environment. Ecology, law, ethics, anthropology, ethology and sociology: these are the subjects linked together in order to examine the complex model.

In the last years, the "electromagnetic pollution" case has pointed out a new formula for the processes of policy making, scientific assessment, informative network, but, above all, citizen action. Analysis starts from the concept of "incommensurability" in order to study this emblematic example of the increasingly numerous social problems where a difficult agenda setting in cognitive and formative interventions coexists with the social actors’ attempt to defend their own interests. These intractable controversies characterize a governance process, pointing out the "voice from the bottom" as an input for the institutions to prevent future danger. This is based on a sense of responsibility, long-term planning, multidisciplinary decision making, limitation to scientific certainty, willingness to overcome value pluralism.