RISULTATI RICERCA

In the study of health great importance has the fit between offer and demand on a specific area. The proposal of this article is to examine the application of a contextual approach, based on a strategy which implements descriptive and explorative analysis, using multilevel techniques. The relationship between health and environment is analysed through ecological-environmental elements and quality/quantity of health care and, consequently, mobility.

The use of cars is an example of different influence on health of environment. Traffic accidents and consequences on human life, physical and psychological health are examined in a methodological and theoretical view. The possibilities of using qualitative data in conjunction with quantitative data are shown in order to examine the effects of cars mobility on short period (deaths, disabilities, etc.) and long period (pollution, social costs, etc.). Finally, the paper examines the political policies for prevention of risk and road security.

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.

Experiencing the Embodiment in Disabilty (di Lucia Parente) - ABSTRAC: Lucia Parente proposes a deep set of philosophycal reflections about the role of the body in contemporary society. According to her, the body is collocated in an ambiguos position: on one side the body is considered as an aestetics object that has to be shown on the coversheets, on the other side this kind of requests causes peculiar pathologies of the body (depression and eating disorders). Architectural barriers are a problem for persons with disabilities, but social barriers are a problem as well.

The disability paradox means that people that should be sick feel good. Often people with disabilities are very satisfatied with their lifes and consider their own conditions as fairly good, coerently Quality of Life indexes results in high rates. After an analysis of the main approches on the topic (equilibrium model; expectations- gap model; coping model; illness behavior model), Niero suggests, quoting classical scholars (Levine, Mechanic ecc.), that, in many cases, disability is considered as a part of the identity of a person that can be a fruitful one. To put it with Stephen Hawking words: [thanks to my wife, children, and collagues] disability has never been a serious handicap. Now I am very happy. Niero suggests that probably the paradox is not a real paradox.