[Effects of ACE inhibition with enalapril on the renal function of patients with essential arterial hypertension].

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CASES OF POISONING DETECTED IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF THE “SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO” HOSPITAL FROM 2012 TO 2016 AND IN THE TOXICOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF THE “BUCCHERI LA FERLA” HOSPITAL IN PALERMO

Many clinical cases of intentional or unintentional poisoning have been analysed for every kind of xenobiotics in the period 2012-2016 observed at the “San Giovanni di Dio” Hospital in Agrigento, The same kind of study was carried out on some cases of the period 2000-2010 and 2010-2016 at the “Bucchieri La Ferla” Hospital in Palermo. At the “San Giovanni di Dio” Hospital in Agrigento individual and anonymous data from a sample of 264 individuals has been collected and they present a set of symptoms that are, in whole or in part, caused by the poisoning. Simultaneously, the survey carried out on the hospital in Palermo, which involved 96 individuals, gave particular attention to poisoning ca…

Autorità e paideia. John Dewey ed il telos del governante filosofo di Platone.

Il desiderio di un'etica nell'epoca dell'immagine del mondo dominata dalla tecnica

The question about the essence of modern technique is posed from the point of view of a desire to go beyond anthropological-instrumental conceptions of technique: in fact, it recognizes the profound connection between the metaphysics of subjectivity and the advent of the world of technology, the last of the temptations or risks must be to fall back into instrumental anthropological conceptions of the technique. In fact, we must not make the mistake of considering that at the origin of the technique is the scientific calculation of nature, the sum expression of the self-affirmation of the subject in the sense that the technique is entirely dominable by man: this is precisely the illusion gen…

[Validity of the use of penbutolol in essential arterial hypertension].

Thirty patients suffering from WHO I-II class slight-moderate essential arterial hypertension were treated with a beta-blocker (Penbutolol) alone and once a day to assess its antihypertensive effectiveness and its affect on heart frequency, lipid metabolism and kidney function. The drug proved highly effective in reducing P.A.S. and P.A.D. values and no negative influence was documented on lipid metabolism, kidney function or heart frequency.

Timore di dio e theoria nell'esperienza religiosa greca

Liberi di pensare. Aporie della libertà

La theoria come spazio indispensabile per la vita politica dell’uomo: questa profonda intuizione, posta da Hannah Arendt a fondamento de La vita della mente, viene sviluppata, nel presente volume, indagando sulla peculiare libertà che Aristotele associa all’esercizio della filosofia. L’attività teoretica del pensiero implica infatti, nello Stagirita, una proairesis tou biou, una scelta di fondo, con la quale colui che pensa plasma la sua vita nel libero corrispondere alla propria natura di essere pensante. Se si investigano ulteriormente i fondamenti di questa forma aristotelica di libertà, si comprendono meglio le ragioni del legame essenziale tra volere, pensare e giudicare, che per Arend…