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AUTHOR
Lucia Craxi
Sustainability of national health services and justice: the case of new DAAs for HCV in Italy
Background - Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) have quite changed the therapeutic routine in the last few years. Reported rates of sustained virological response (SVR), exceed 90% in all patients subgroups. Other, even more effective, DAAs combinations are being developed for use in the most difficult to treat and advanced patients, aiming for 100% of SVR in 100% of cases. The perspective is the eradication of HCV and reduction of main complications: liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Aim and Methodology - Dealing with justice issues related to DAAs for HCV in Italy through the anlysis of available literature and documentation. Results - The ethical prin…
LA REAL CASA DEI MATTI DI PALERMO E IL MITO LETTERARIO DEL BARONE PISANI
This story is about a government, which considered the management of madness not a medical issue but a matter of law and order, and a 64 years old official who became the director of a madhouse having no medical nor managing expertise in mental disease, but just humanity and dedication. But most of all its the story of their attempt to project an image of themselves and of what they had done, that turned out in something completely different: a literary myth which went so far to reach the pen of Alexandre Dumas and Edgar Allan Poe.
The wounded self-portrait as an expression of the experiential dimension of disease
The present article aims at giving an ethical-anthropological interpretation of the body wounded by the disease, under the perspective of the wounded self-portrait, a genre selected by some artists who, between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, pictured their physical or psychological malaise (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Munch, Bacon, Klee). Getting acquainted with artistic language, particularly when it arises from personal experience, has an educational value for healthcare professional, as it helps to catch “the history from below”, as Roy Porter called it, which is the history from the patient’s perspective. Dans cet article les auteurs donnent une interprétation anthropologique au corps h…