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Le traiettorie teoriche del corpo fra ordine e disordine sociale.
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Il saggio intende offrire una rassegna critica dei paradigmi attraverso cui l’antropologia ha inteso indagare i rapporti fra corpo e ordine sociale. Prendendo in esame i contributi provenienti principalmente dalla letteratura di stampo anglofono, si argomenta come questi si siano andati progressivamente a concentrare sull’analisi delle fratture prodotte dai processi socio-economici sull’esperienza. Questa postura teorica ha visto il rarefarsi dell’attenzione per la voce degli attori sociali, erodendo la perturbante funzione di critica culturale dell’antropologia e dando spesso vita a nuove problematiche forme di universalismo
Oltre l’efficacia simbolica. Produttività e criticità di un concetto.
Full text linkIl contributo di Claude Lévi-Strauss ha inaugurato una feconda tradizione di studi sulle dimensioni simboliche dell’efcacia terapeutca che ancora oggi contnua a dare preziosi frut. In questo contributo si prendono in esame gli sviluppi che, dalla magistrale lezione dello studioso francese, hanno permesso un profondo ripensamento dell’argomento, capace di tenere in debita considerazione il ruolo, sia del paziente, sia delle relazioni sociali di cui partecipa, nella promozione della trasformazione dell’esperienza. In conclusione si segnala la necessità di superare la scissione fra analisi delle dimensioni simboliche e promozione del dirito alla salute che ancora oggi caraterizza buona parte della ricerca antropologica sull’efcacia terapeutca.Claude Lévi-Strauss has inaugurated a fruitul traditon of studies on the symbolic dimensions of therapeutc efcacy, which stll represents a fruitul source of inspiraton today. This paper examines the developments that, from the masterful lesson of the French scholar, have allowed a profound rethinking of the subject, capable of taking into account the role of both: the patent and the social relatons in which s/he partcipates, in promotng the transformaton of experience. The conclusion calls for the overcoming of the divide between the analysis of symbolic dimensions and the promoton of the right to health, a split that stll characterizes much of the anthropological research on therapeutc efcacy
Lockdown dall'alto, comunità dal basso: ripensare la cura in tempo di pandemia
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to analyze community participation as a form of health protection and promotion by focusing on the grassroots actions that emerged in Bologna during last year’s lockdown period in the context of the COVID-19 emergency. In so doing, both the concepts of health and care will be problematised. Specifically, health will be presented as a cultural construct (as it depends on what gives value to people’s lives) that is socially generated (through the involvement of social actors); care will leave the conceptual space of biomedicine to move towards a collective definition of agency. Participation will thus emerge as crucial both for the definition of needs and their care
Covid-19 e lo svelamento dell’implicito. Il ruolo dell’antropologia nel ripensamento dei servizi socio-sanitari
No full textI saperi antropologici trovano la loro dimensione critica nel restituire all’azione umana ambiti che culturalmente ammantiamo di naturalità. Nel contesto specifico della salute, della malattia e delle loro cura, tale esercizio critico si svolge con l’intento di mettere in luce tanto la natura storico-culturale dei nostri saperi a tale riguardo, quanto gli effetti che essi producono a livello sociale. L’obiettivo di tale esercizio critico non è solo quello di guadagnare una maggiore consapevolezza dell’umano, ma anche quello di evocare possibili alternative a partire proprio dall’esplorazione etnografica delle zone d’ombra proiettate dalle costruzioni culturali indagate. Quello che qui si intende proporre è una possibile lettura antropologica delle risposte istituzionali all’emergenza sanitaria da Covid-19, a partire da uno specifico contesto di osservazione, con l’obiettivo di formulare possibili linee di ragionamento e di azione nel più ampio campo della promozione della salute
INTRODUCTION. Assemblages, transformations, and the politics of care.
No full textThis volume presents a selection of the contributions to the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) conference, Assemblages, transformations, and the politics of care, that took place
in Bertinoro, Italy, 2014. The authors investigate the moral, material and social assemblages,
the mechanisms of transformations, the relationality and the shifting negotiations
that define contexts and politics of care. Their shared aim is to problematize both
curing and caring as embodied cultural processes, investigating how forms
of biosociality, control and subjectification are configured in socially situated and
culturally specific terms. Together, they show how care is both extremely fragile as an analytical concept as well as exceptionally productive in questioning the very processes involved in our being human
Assemblages, Transformations, and the Politics of Care
No full textThis volume presents a selection of the contributions to the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) conference, Assemblages, transformations, and the politics of care, that took place
in Bertinoro, Italy, 2014. The authors investigate the moral, material and social assemblages,
the mechanisms of transformations, the relationality and the shifting negotiations
that define contexts and politics of care. Their shared aim is to problematize both
curing and caring as embodied cultural processes, investigating how forms
of biosociality, control and subjectification are configured in socially situated and
culturally specific terms. Together, they show how care is both extremely fragile as an analytical concept as well as exceptionally productive in questioning the very processes involved in our being human
COVID-19 in Italy. A new culture of healthcare for future preparedness
No full textItaly was the first Western country hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with tremendous impact. Several factors contributed to this, many still under investigation, including macroeconomic flows of goods and people, environmental and social conditions, a weakened national health system (NHS) and severe unpreparedness for a pandemic. As a “limit situation”, the pandemic made explicit the impact of market-oriented reforms in undermining the capacity of the NHS to perform its biopolitical duties of health promotion. It also made explicit the cultural values informing national health policy: the pandemic was mainly dealt with at the hospital level, with an infective and virologic approach rather than a public health one. Although it was mainly through lockdown, i.e. people's social behavior, that the virus spread began to be contained, the NHS did not act through its community-based local articulations. Rather, lockdown was a top-down measure, without consideration of the social conditions of its lived experience. In this chapter, we explore these elements to critically highlight what might be needed to build real preparedness: a global health approach capable of acting locally by involving community participation, based on a broader health concept that legitimizes forms of knowledge not strictly bound to the biomedical field
CUIDADOS INTERMEDIÁRIOS E REDES DE ATENÇÃO BÁSICA À SAÚDE
No full textIl volume raccoglie i materiali prodotti nel contesto del progetto di Cooperazione della Regione Emilia-Romagna sulle Cure Intermedie fra Italia e Brasile.
Il Progetto ha visto coinvolto un consorzio di cui sono stati partner tre ospedali di Comunità della Regione Emilia-Romagna, l'Università di Bologna e di Parma, l'Università di Niterori in Brasile, le municipalità brasiliane di Niteroi e Nova Friburgo l'organizzazione non governativa AIFO (come capofila del consorzio).
I diversi contributi hanno l'obiettivo di fornire strumenti di formazione e di ricerca sul ruolo delle cure intermedie nel ripensare l'assistenza come un processo partecipativo incentrato sulla cura più che sulla guarigione. L'atto medico viene visto come una pratica culturale molecolare in una più ampia dinamica che deve poter coinvolgere attivamente non solo l'assistito, ma anche la sua rete sociale in un processo di integrazione fra servizi attualmente segnati da profonde frammentazioni
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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