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Ilenia Massa Pinto

Geopolitica e (ir)rilevanza del diritto costituzionale

DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE

Fascicolo: 1 / 2025

Il recente rinnovato interesse per la geopolitica nel dibattito pubblico può essere considerato un sintomo di crisi della concezione della costituzione quale insieme di norme la cui enunciazione è funzione rilevante in sé, nel senso che le forze dominanti del sistema giuridico-politico le percepiscono come prescrittive e soprattutto come dotate di consistenza autonoma rispetto alle sollecitazioni e alle pressioni dei fatti che pretendono di regolare, nella consapevolezza che dalla loro efficacia dipendono le condizioni di esistenza del sistema giuridico-politico stesso. La crisi della scienza del diritto – che si manifesta nel fatto che i giuristi non intendono più l’oggetto della loro disciplina come individuazione delle regole valide, ma come conoscenza dei fatti regolati – evoca intuitivamente prospettive teoriche riconducibili alla geopolitica. Il saggio riprende alcune teorie dell’indirizzo politico e della costituzione in senso materiale che hanno tentato, da un lato, attraverso la consapevolezza del ruolo autocreativo della politica, di inserire nel discorso giuridico la lezione weberiana in ordine alla fungibilità dei fini politici dello Stato, e, dall’altro, attraverso l’elaborazione di categorie che consentano l’individuazione di norme (e non di meri fatti) da elementi extra-testuali, di preservare al contempo quella consistenza autonoma delle regole rispetto ai fatti regolati dalla quale dipende la rilevanza stessa di un quadro normativo di riferimento proiettato nel futuro: consistenza che una prospettiva geopolitica del diritto parrebbe invece totalmente negare.

Alessandro Guerra

Il romanzo del popolo nella lunga modernità europea

PASSATO E PRESENTE

Fascicolo: 124 / 2025

The review discusses Stefano Brugnolo’s recent book on Revolution and people as viewed through the literature. Revolution is not just a historical fact. Literature can appropriate it to represent a world in transition; revolution then becomes the metaphor by which the modern West has conceived itself as a project dangerously open to the future. A project that can become a nightmare or a dream of a bright future.

Vincenzo Auriemma, Ivana Ferrara, Ester Miranda, Salvatore Patti, Daniela Baldassarre, Giuliana Scarpati, Gennaro Iorio, Ornella Piazza

Assessment of the quality of life after discharge from the ICU: a comparison of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ

Fascicolo: 1 / 2025

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on the mental health and well-being of people worldwide. Method: The authors conducted an observational pilot study, considering two patient cohorts: the first sample of 20 non-COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU from September 2019 to September 2020 and the second sample of 26 COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU from October 2020 and April 2021. Participants were contacted for a telephone interview within six months after discharge. Results: The quality of life, calculated through the SF-12, of patients admitted for COVID- 19 in 2020-21 is worse than the sample discharged from the ICU in the previous period, 2019-2020. Conclusions: The quality of life indices that emerged in both the pandemic and prepandemic eras were lower than average, but when comparing the two cohorts, the indices collected in the pandemic era were lower.

Matteo Di Placido, Stefania Palmisano

Salute e salvezza: genealogia della spiritualità nelle pratiche di cura

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ

Fascicolo: 1 / 2025

The article investigates the relationship between spirituality and care by preliminarily reconstructing the genealogy of the health and salvation nexus, a link hitherto little explored by sociology. We intend to show that the union between spirituality and care has ancient roots and manifests itself in different expressions that need to be explored within the historical, discursive and practical frameworks that pertain to the link between health and salvation. These three dimensions of analysis (history, discourses and practices) favor the sociological understanding of the nexus between spirituality and care, that is, the symbiotic relationship between care for the body and care for the spirit at the basis of the current interest in spirituality within medical and nursing practices. We suggest that to fully understand the current importance of spirituality in the field of health, it is essential to overcome the ahistorical and essentializing conceptualization dominant in the medical-nursing literature.

This study aims to investigate health inequalities in the city of Milan, making use of two complementary theoretical frameworks, namely the fundamental causes theory and the intersectionality theory. Relying on administrative healthcare data, we examined the social gradient in relation to several health outcomes, comparing the results from the traditional “additive” approach with those from the “multiplicative” approach. We examined the association between socioeconomic status, gender, and citizenship on one side, and health outcomes on the other. The results confirm the presence of a social gradient in health conditions, highlighting distinct health risks according to each pathology and to the combinations between the three socio-demographic indicators. The analysis carried out confirms the methodological usefulness of the joint application of the two theoretical frameworks, providing relevant clues regarding the development of interventions aimed at promoting public health. Keywords: health inequalities; social determinants of health; intersectionality theory; fundamental causes theory; social gradient; social epidemiology.

Claudio Baraldi

Structures of expectations in communication involving migrant patients in andrology

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ

Fascicolo: 1 / 2025

This article presents the analysis of audio-recorded and transcribed medical encounters between andrologists and native and migrant patients with erectile dysfunctions. The article deals with reflexive expectations as basic structures of the medical system, showing that andrologists’ actions contribute to undermine stable reflexive expectations in medical communication. The analysis shows that deficit in treatment of language barriers is only one single indicator of the more general problem of failure in structuring expectations concerning negotiation of information and patients’ contributions. This failure prevents a patient-centred form of communication processes that involves migrant patients.