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9One of the most unpredictable things the pandemic brought to our societies was the closure of hospitals and other health services to visitors. Preventing the spread of infection was the main reason for these decisions in the early days of the pandemic when there was no clarity about the means of transmission and the origin of the virus. However, in view of the persistence of the restrictions to date and the numerous negative consequences they have had on the professional and personal quality of …Read more
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7Living with a chronic condition represents a strenuous experience that often could be lived as a sequence of waiting and crisis times. Therapeutic path incidents could represent however a catalysts and revelatory time, useful to patients to discover their own resources. A qualitative study according to the phenomenological hermeneutic perspective was conducted to understand the kind of skills expressed by the patients during a difficult episode, and the characteristics that identify patients who…Read more
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12Daniele Bruzzone, Lucia Zannini (a cura di), Sfidare i tabù della cura. Percorsi di formazione emotiva dei professionisti, Franco Angeli, Milano, ISBN 9788835110743, 163 pagine, 2021 (review)ENCYCLOPAIDEIA 25 (61): 97-99. 2021.
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143Preferred identity as phoenix epiphanies for people immersed in their illness experiences. A qualitative study on autobiographiesENCYCLOPAIDEIA 25 (59): 43-55. 2021.The illness immersion condition prevents patients from enjoying everything worth living life for. In any case, according to Frank, this condition could represent one of the most insightful experiences towards understanding the meaning of life. Using the metaphor of phoenix taken from May, Frank identified four kinds of embodiments through which the phoenix can reveal itself in a patient after an illness immersion experience: the phoenix that could ever be and the phoenix that might have been; th…Read more
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8Meaning making and re-making processes in the lived experience of illness, fragility and social exclusionENCYCLOPAIDEIA 25 (59): 1-3. 2021.
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University of PaduaResearcher
Padua, Italy
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Social Science |