Francesco Vitale
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Vitale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitale |
| SIGNATURE | VITALE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Palermo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1257-6280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Explainable Machine Learning Approach to Predict Suicidal Thoughts in University Students
The increasing prevalence of suicidal ideation among university students, especially those enrolled in medical and healthcare courses, necessitates innovative approaches for early detection and prevention. The southern part of Italy presents a distinct cultural, social, and economic context and is under‐represented in research. This study leverages the capabilities of machine learning methods and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to addre…
Prevalence of smoking habits, attitudes and knowledge on counteractive strategies among a sample of healthcare employees
Introduction: Tobacco use is responsible for over 7 million deaths annually, making smoking the leading cause of preventable mortality globally. Over the last two decades in Italy, the prevalence of smoking among physicians has consistently decreased, while it remains higher and is gradually decreasing among non-physician healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to investigate the Prevalence of smoking habits, attitudes, and knowledge on cou…
About cancer screenings and saving lives
A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials conducted by Bretthauer et al. to evaluate the advantage of cancer screening, recently published by Jama Internal Medicine, concluded that “common cancer screenings do not save lives with the possible exception of sigmoidoscopy screening” (1). The Authors derive their conclusion from estimates of lifetime gained with screening by “comparing all-cause mortality in people who underwent screening with th…
Detection of influenza virus in urban wastewater during the season 2022/2023 in Sicily, Italy
Introduction: Seasonal influenza generally represents an underestimated public health problem with significant socioeconomic implications. Monitoring and detecting influenza epidemics are important tasks that require integrated strategies. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an emerging field that uses wastewater data to monitor the spread of disease and assess the health of a community. It can represent an integrative surveillance tool for be…
The Affirmation of Deconstruction – Perhaps
In The Politics of Friendship, through the Nietzschean vision of a ‘new species of philosophers’ to come, the ‘philosophers of the dangerous perhaps’, Jacques Derrida sees the nascent possibility of an entirely new experience and thus an equally new thought: the experience and thought of the ‘perhaps’. Given the context, this reference to the experience and thought of the ‘perhaps’ has always been interpreted in an ethical-political key, but anot…
Le charme obscur de l’entropie
Cet article a pour but de revenir sur les pages que Stiegler consacre à la critique du « nihilisme anthropologique » de Lévi-Strauss qui s’appuie sur des spéculations scientifiques sur l’entropie afin de soutenir une vision sombre de l’avenir de l’humanité et surtout de son évolution culturelle, technologique et industrielle comme catalyseur de telle entropie universelle. L’article entend démontrer la nécessité d’exorciser la fascination obscure …
Sars-CoV-2 genomic surveillance of migrants arriving to Europe through the Mediterranean routes
Background: The implementation genomic-based surveillance on emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants in low-income countries, which have inadequate molecular and sequencing capabilities and limited vaccine storage, represents a challenge for public health. To date, there is little evidence on molecular investigations of SARS-CoV-2 variants in areas where they might emerge. We report the findings of an experi…
Pneumococcal vaccine uptake among high-risk adults and children in Italy
Pneumococcal vaccination uptake within prioritized groups and children in Italy remains inadequate. Scarce awareness of vaccine availability and obstacles in accessing vaccinations emerge as principal barriers influencing this scenario
Quoting the Other
In "Toward an Ethic of Discussion," Jacques Derrida returns to the controversy with Jonathan Searle to clarify his position but above all because he "would have wished to make legible the (philosophical, ethical, political) axiomatics hidden beneath the code of academic discussion." I intend, in turn, to return to this text in order to find in it not only the conditions of an ethics of academic discussion but also of interpretation in a deconstru…
The Tropic-Concepts of Life
In the field of life science there is a growing awareness of the metaphorical tenor of many of its key concepts and the problems that arise from them, as in the now-controversial case of the genetic 'program'. In the seminar Life Death (2019) Derrida addresses this question from Georges Canguilhem's difficulties in establishing a clear distinction between metaphor and concept, precisely with regard to the notion of 'program', concluding that this…
Knowledge and adherence to the Mediterranean diet in individuals practicing regular amatorial physical activity
Introduction: Mediterranean Diet (MD) is a universal model of nutrition that prevents several metabolic, cardiovascular, and oncological diseases. Main objective of the present study was to analyze adherence and knowledge regarding MD principles in a sample of individuals practicing amatorial sports from the Metropolitan Area of Palermo. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 10 Sports Centers, between October 2020 and September 2021, …
Schizogonies
While working on the Italian translation of Life Death, I became aware of some inaccuracies on Derrida’s part that might weaken the effectiveness of his deconstruction of the notion of ‘reproduction’. Not only, such inaccuracies seem to lead Derrida’s interpretation of reproduction toward a conception of ‘life’ that might even hint at an undeconstructed metaphysical background. I have already dealt with such inaccuracies in detail in two articles…
Differing the Ecological Event
In Biodeconstruction (2018) I argued that Derrida, in the Life Death seminar (1975–76), would have anticipated the most recent developments in epigenetics, a field in which the dogma of genetic determinism is radically challenged by noting the influence of the environment in the production of mutations in the genetic program, particularly when a genetic population is faced with a radical change in its environmental conditions, which I propose to …
Spectral Survivals
Specters of Marx is the first published text by Jacques Derrida in which the expression “Life-Death [La-vie-la-mort]” reappears, twice (Derrida 1994, 67, 177), more than fifteen years after the seminar at the ENS in Paris entitled La vie la mort [Life Death] (1975–1976), published in French only in 2019, and thirteen years after the publication of La Carte Postale (1980), translated into English as The Post Card (1987), in which the expression “L…
Generación, reproducción, reprotraducción
Traducción de Ariel Lugo. En el seminario La vida la muerte (1975-76), Jacques Derrida identifica la “reproducción” como el criterio que subyace y orienta La lógica de lo viviente (1970), la obra del biólogo François Jacob, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1965, junto con Jacques Monod y André Lwoff, por sus estudios sobre la síntesis de proteínas por el ADN: “Comencemos por el concepto de reroducción. Es el concepto último del crit…
Sars-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Professionals and General Population During “First Wave” of Covid-19 Pandemic
On December 31, 2019, an outbreak of lower respiratory infections was documented in Wuhan caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since the beginning, SARS-CoV-2 has caused many infections among healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. Aims of this study were: a. to compare the distribution among the HCWs and the general population of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Western Sicily and Italy; b. to describe the characteris…
Genomic Analysis and Lineage Identification of Sars-CoV-2 Strains in Migrants Accessing Europe Through the Libyan Route
Many African countries, representing the origin of the majority of refugees, asylum-seekers, and other migrants, toward regions bordering on the Mediterranean area, are experiencing sustained local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Sicily is one of the main entry gates of migrants crossing into Europe. We conducted a pilot study, based on the full-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains isolated from mi…
Health Communication in Covid-19 Era
In 2013, in a bid to combat Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) and provide information on vaccines by communicating with the general public and the health community (e.g., healthcare workers and public health operators), the Italian Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (S.It.I.) published the national website "VaccinarSì". The project was subsequently extended to ten Italian Regions. This led to the creation of the VaccinarSì Network, whose websites ar…
Risk Factors, Lifestyle and Prevention among Adolescents with Idiopathic Juvenile Scoliosis
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has an incidence of 2-3% in the general population and a multifactorial etiology. The present study aims to analyze modifiable risk factors and their interactions in the development of AIS in order to increase knowledge about the disease and to prevent the evolution of AIS in young students with tailored public health strategies. A cross-sectional study was conducted over two consecutive school years among st…
Proposal for an Alliance Between Healthcare and Legal Area Professionals for Shared Public Health and Preventive Strategies in Italy and Europe
Following the implementation of the new Italian legislation on responsibility of healthcare workers, a multi-professional framework, involving representatives of the Italian public health professionals and legal professionals expert in the field, drafted a proposal of the actionable recommendations to be implemented in the management of civil and penal disputes arising from the practice of public health interventions. In order to prevent legal di…
Making the Différance
This paper intends to verify the extent and effectiveness of the transforming appropriation of the Derridean concept of ‘differance’ by Stiegler with respect to the problems that, according to Stiegler, make this creative critical operation necessary; in particular with respect to the most recent question concerning the possibility of thinking about and putting into practice a ‘neganthropological différance’ capable of facing the ecological crisi…
Animal d’archive
The article seeks to outline the relationship between Geschlecht III and Jacques Derrida’s published texts devoted to the mark “Geschlecht,” in order to detect the general strategy followed by Derrida in the construction of his archive during his lifetime. Indeed, we suppose that his archive has to be built in accordance with his deconstructive statements about the classical conception of the archive: a totalizing closure of a textual production …
The Management of Health Hazards Related to Municipal Solid Waste on Fire in Europe
Landfilling should be the last option in an integrated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management approach. In the European Union (EU), the policy framework to protect the environment and the public health against the impact of health hazards related to urban solid waste management has been consistently implemented in recent decades. A growing interest in the negative impact of fires in waste landfills on the environment and people's health was repor…
Human Papilloma Virus Infection and Vaccination
In recent years, vaccination coverage rates against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in Europe have shown a decreasing trend and remain below the required standard. The present study aims to assess knowledge and attitudes regarding HPV infection and vaccination among a representative sample of preadolescents of Palermo, Italy. A survey was carried out throughout two questionnaires, before and after carrying out an educational intervention scheduled du…
On the Other Side of the Drive for Power
Research Article| July 01 2020 On the Other Side of the Drive for Power: Transcendental Violence and Its Deconstruction Francesco Vitale Francesco Vitale Università di Salerno, Italy Francesco Vitale is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. His academic interests have focused on Derrida's work since his PhD dissertation in philosophy on Derrida's relation to Hegel (University Federico II of Napoli, Italy). He is t…
The Text and the Living
This paper gives an account of work in progress on ‘Derrida and Biology’ that takes its point of departure from Derrida's unpublished seminar La vie la mort (1975), the first six sessions of which are devoted to biology and, in particular, to the work of François Jacob, a genetic biologist known for his research on the DNA structure and the laws of heredity in the organization and evolution of the living. This seminar shows that Derrida's engagem…
Microphysics of Sex. Sexual Differences between Biology and Deconstruction
Might one not begin to think of a sexual difference (without negativity, let us be clear) that would not be sealed by the two 1Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht IIn the unpublished seminar Life Death [La
Life Death and Differance
Research Article| March 01 2015 Life Death and Differance: Philosophies of Life between Hegel and Derrida Francesco Vitale Francesco Vitale University of Salerno, Italy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (1): 93–112. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0093 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
A retrospective follow up study on maternal age and infant mortality in two Sicilian districts
The association between advanced maternal age and infant deaths in the Messina district was due in part to the excess of newborns from advanced age mothers, but also to increased risk of death among such newborns. The significant interaction between district of residence and maternal age indicated that the IMR excess in the Messina district cannot be explained by disproportionately high live birth rates among older mothers and suggested the hypot…
Conjuring Time
Occult Hepatitis B Infection in the Immigrant Population of Sicily, Italy
Biologie et déconstruction. Entre Ameisen et Derrida
The Text and the Living
This paper gives an account of work in progress on ‘Derrida and Biology’ that takes its point of departure from Derrida's unpublished seminar La vie la mort (1975), the first six sessions of which are devoted to biology and, in particular, to the work of François Jacob, a genetic biologist known for his research on the DNA structure and the laws of heredity in the organization and evolution of the living. This seminar shows that Derrida's engagem…
Life Death and Differance
Research Article| March 01 2015 Life Death and Differance: Philosophies of Life between Hegel and Derrida Francesco Vitale Francesco Vitale University of Salerno, Italy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (1): 93–112. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0093 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
‘With or Without You…’
This essay constitutes the first stage of a new research project inspired by my work Biodeconstruction. Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences. The aim of this project is to put to the test the effects that Derrida's understanding of the living as a ‘telic structure’ has on the life sciences
Finite Infinity
Research Article| November 01 2017 Finite Infinity: Reading Gasché Reading Derrida Reading Hegel ... “and so on without an end” Francesco Vitale Francesco Vitale Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy Francesco Vitale is associate professor of esthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. His academic interests have focused on Derrida’s work since his PhD dissertation in philosophy on Derrida’s relation to Hegel (University Federico II of Napoli,…
Reading the Programme
In the unpublished seminar La vie la mort (Life-Death) (1975-76), Derrida reads The Logic of Life by the biologist François Jacob. The seminar is oriented to answer a question already advanced in Of Grammatology: what are the deconstructive effects—if any—provoked by grafting the theory of information onto biological research, and in particular by the use of notions such as "programme" and "writing"? This essay shows how Derrida deconstructs the …
Increased Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents and Young Adults in the District of Palermo as a Result of a Public Health Strategy to Counteract an ‘Epidemic Panic’
During the summer of 2016 four cases of invasive meningococcal disease in rapid succession among young adults in the district of Palermo, Italy, resulting in one death, were widely reported by local and national mass media. The resultant ‘epidemic panic’ among the general population overloaded the vaccination units of the Palermo district over the following months. Strategies implemented by the Sicilian and local public health authorities to coun…
Factors Associated with HPV Vaccine Refusal among Young Adult Women after Ten Years of Vaccine Implementation
In Italy, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was implemented for twelve years old girls in 2007, but its coverage was lower than the recommended level. Sicily is one of the Italian administrative regions with lower vaccination coverage, with a value of 59% for those born in 1996 increasing to 62% coverage for those born in 1999. The aim of the study was to investigate factors associated with the refusal of HPV vaccination among young adul…
Childhood and Adolescence Cancers in the Palermo Province (Southern Italy)
Italy has one of the highest paediatric cancer incidence rates in Europe. We compared cancer incidence and survival rates in children (0−14 years) and adolescents (15−19 years) residing in Palermo Province (PP) with statistics derived from Italian and European surveillance systems. We included all incident cancer cases, malignant tumours and non-malignant neoplasm of central nervous system (benign and uncertain whether malignant or benign), detec…
Pathways of care for HIV infected children in Beira, Mozambique
Despite several limitations and controversial results on nutrition assessment and CD4 count at the initiation of ART reported after the intervention, it could be assumed that TS alone may play a role in the improvement of the global effectiveness of care for HIV infected children only if integrated into a wider range of public health measures
Microphysics of Sex. Sexual Differences between Biology and Deconstruction
Might one not begin to think of a sexual difference (without negativity, let us be clear) that would not be sealed by the two 1Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht IIn the unpublished seminar Life Death [La
What (Bio)deconstruction Is Not
Proposal for an Alliance Between Healthcare and Legal Area Professionals for Shared Public Health and Preventive Strategies in Italy and Europe
Following the implementation of the new Italian legislation on responsibility of healthcare workers, a multi-professional framework, involving representatives of the Italian public health professionals and legal professionals expert in the field, drafted a proposal of the actionable recommendations to be implemented in the management of civil and penal disputes arising from the practice of public health interventions. In order to prevent legal di…
Making the Différance
This paper intends to verify the extent and effectiveness of the transforming appropriation of the Derridean concept of ‘differance’ by Stiegler with respect to the problems that, according to Stiegler, make this creative critical operation necessary; in particular with respect to the most recent question concerning the possibility of thinking about and putting into practice a ‘neganthropological différance’ capable of facing the ecological crisi…
Animal d’archive
The article seeks to outline the relationship between Geschlecht III and Jacques Derrida’s published texts devoted to the mark “Geschlecht,” in order to detect the general strategy followed by Derrida in the construction of his archive during his lifetime. Indeed, we suppose that his archive has to be built in accordance with his deconstructive statements about the classical conception of the archive: a totalizing closure of a textual production …
The Management of Health Hazards Related to Municipal Solid Waste on Fire in Europe
Landfilling should be the last option in an integrated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management approach. In the European Union (EU), the policy framework to protect the environment and the public health against the impact of health hazards related to urban solid waste management has been consistently implemented in recent decades. A growing interest in the negative impact of fires in waste landfills on the environment and people's health was repor…
Human Papilloma Virus Infection and Vaccination
In recent years, vaccination coverage rates against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in Europe have shown a decreasing trend and remain below the required standard. The present study aims to assess knowledge and attitudes regarding HPV infection and vaccination among a representative sample of preadolescents of Palermo, Italy. A survey was carried out throughout two questionnaires, before and after carrying out an educational intervention scheduled du…
On the Other Side of the Drive for Power
Research Article| July 01 2020 On the Other Side of the Drive for Power: Transcendental Violence and Its Deconstruction Francesco Vitale Francesco Vitale Università di Salerno, Italy Francesco Vitale is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. His academic interests have focused on Derrida's work since his PhD dissertation in philosophy on Derrida's relation to Hegel (University Federico II of Napoli, Italy). He is t…
Sars-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Professionals and General Population During “First Wave” of Covid-19 Pandemic
On December 31, 2019, an outbreak of lower respiratory infections was documented in Wuhan caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since the beginning, SARS-CoV-2 has caused many infections among healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. Aims of this study were: a. to compare the distribution among the HCWs and the general population of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Western Sicily and Italy; b. to describe the characteris…
Genomic Analysis and Lineage Identification of Sars-CoV-2 Strains in Migrants Accessing Europe Through the Libyan Route
Many African countries, representing the origin of the majority of refugees, asylum-seekers, and other migrants, toward regions bordering on the Mediterranean area, are experiencing sustained local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Sicily is one of the main entry gates of migrants crossing into Europe. We conducted a pilot study, based on the full-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains isolated from mi…
Health Communication in Covid-19 Era
In 2013, in a bid to combat Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) and provide information on vaccines by communicating with the general public and the health community (e.g., healthcare workers and public health operators), the Italian Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (S.It.I.) published the national website "VaccinarSì". The project was subsequently extended to ten Italian Regions. This led to the creation of the VaccinarSì Network, whose websites ar…
Risk Factors, Lifestyle and Prevention among Adolescents with Idiopathic Juvenile Scoliosis
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has an incidence of 2-3% in the general population and a multifactorial etiology. The present study aims to analyze modifiable risk factors and their interactions in the development of AIS in order to increase knowledge about the disease and to prevent the evolution of AIS in young students with tailored public health strategies. A cross-sectional study was conducted over two consecutive school years among st…
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