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  • Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

    by Henk ten Have, Renzo Pegoraro ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change.Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Introduction to Medical Humanities

    Medicine and the Italian Artistic Heritage

    Edited by Renzo Pegoraro, Luciana Caenazzo, Lucia Mariani ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention. In our age of deeply technologically-driven medicine, it is crucial to re-establish and promote the neglected relationship between medicine and the arts. This textbook contains contributions by scholars in various fields, who offer ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Finding Dignity at the End of Life

    A Spiritual Reflection on Palliative Care

    Edited by Kathleen D. Benton, Renzo Pegoraro ...
    Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment.The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of ... Read more

    Was $51.99 USD Now $45.99 USD

  • Medical Humanities.

    Italian Perspectives

    by Luciana Caenazzo, Lucia Mariani, Renzo Pegoraro (eds) ...
    Series series Scienze mediche
    Medical Humanities is an untranslatable and often misconstrued term, born – along with Bioethics – in the United States in the 60s, in the context of what is known as the “contemporary crisis in medicine”. It encompasses the idea of offering cultural and cognitive tools to health practitioners allowing them to establish a better, “more human”, and trusting relationship with the patients and their ... Read more

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    Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

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  • New Ritual Society. Consumerism and culture in contemporary society

    by Gianpiero Vincenzo ...
    “New Ritual Society is impressively thorough and wide- ranging” - Randall Collins“The development of consumerism-related and mass-culture art is also taken into consideration.And this is not merely by chance, because Vincenzo, professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania, deems the understanding of such crucial aspects of present society and culture as essential, in order to educate young ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Network

    Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

    by Paul D. McLean, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Theory

    Edited by James Elkins, Robert Williams ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual ... Read more

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  • The Sexual/Political

    Freud with Marx, Fanon, Foucault

    by Lorenzo Bernini ...
    Translated by Matthew Zundel ...
    Series series Research in Sexualities
    The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-century political theory, and more recent queer philosophies.The book investigates how the sexual has perturbed philosophical, political, and psychoanalytic thought and how this has fed into discrimination against the LGBTQI community. It analyses the ... Read more

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    Religion and Politics in Post War Italian Cinema

    by Roberto Cavallini ...
    The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy’s cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life in its social, political and ... Read more

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  • Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome

    Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

    by Gregory Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
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  • Vulnerability as generativity

    Undoing parenthood in a gylanic perspective

    by Cristiana Ottaviano, Alessia Santambrogio ...
    This book focuses on parenthood and generativity, considered not only a set of biological functions, but as human and socio-cultural capabilities above and beyond gender differences. The authors reconsider in particular the institution of motherhood, emphasizing the historical and social function of women. Alongside a refl ection on the gender role of women as mothers and wives, this volume ... Read more

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