Raffaella D’amico
Biographic Data
| ID | 168723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raffaella D’amico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raffaella |
| FAMILY NAME | D’amico |
| SIGNATURE | D’AMICO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3211-6687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cognitive, behavioral and socio-communication skills as predictors of response to Early Start Denver Model: A prospective study in 32 young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Most predictors showed a linear association with increasing response to ESDM, but GMDS-ER Personal-Social and joint attention level predicted strong response, while PEP-3 receptive language equally predicted moderate or strong response. Although larger samples will be necessary to reach definitive conclusions, in conjunction with prior reports our findings begin providing information able to assist clinicians in choosing the most appropriate trea…
It’s All Covid’s Fault!”: Symptoms of Distress among Workers in an Italian General Hospital during the Pandemic
Considering the persistence of the international emergency, effective strategies to anticipate, recognize and address distress in HCWs are essential, also because they may impact the organization and effectiveness of healthcare systems
Multi-analytical study of the medieval wall paintings from the rupestrian church Grotta del Crocifisso at Lentini (eastern Sicily): New evidence of the use of woad (Isatis tinctoria)
This study presents the results of the examination and characterisation of the wall paintings that decorate the rupestrian church named Grotta del Crocifisso, which is located in the territory of Lentini (eastern Sicily, few tens of kilometres from Catania and Syracuse). The earliest mural paintings in the church date back to the twelfth century AD. A multi-analytical approach was adopted for the characterisation of stone materials, secondary deg…
Green Line Hospital-Territory Study: A Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial for Evaluation of Technological Challenges of Continuous Wireless Monitoring in Internal Medicine, Preliminary Results
Since WVPCM detects early complications during the post-discharge CPs monitoring, it increases safety and reduces inappropriate access to the Emergency Room, preventing avoidable re-hospitalizations
Effects of Early Vocal Contact in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Study Protocol for a Multi-Centre, Randomised Clinical Trial
Preterm infants are at risk for developing altered trajectories of cognitive, social, and linguistic competences compared to a term population. This is mainly due to medical and environmental factors, as they are exposed to an atypical auditory environment and simultaneously, long periods of early separation from their parents. The short-term effects of early vocal contact (EVC) on an infant's early stability have been investigated. However, ther…
Outpatient parents’ views on shared-decision-making at an Italian children’s hospital
Information is lacking on what parents in southern European countries know and how they view clinical shared-decision-making (SDM) for their children. This survey assesses general parental views on SDM and patient-physician SDM relationships in an Italian paediatric outpatients' clinic. In a 3-month cross-sectional survey, we enrolled 458 consecutive native and foreign Italian-speaking parents bringing their children to our public hospital for va…
Are parents of children hospitalized with severe community‐acquired pneumonia more satisfied with care when physicians allow them to share decisions on the antibiotic route
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Despite convincing evidence that oral and injected amoxicillin have equal efficacy in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospitalized children often receive injected antibiotics. To investigate whether shared decision-making (choosing the antibiotic route) influences parental satisfaction. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In a one-year questionnaire-based study, we enrolled consecutive children hospit…
Publication productivity and career advancement by female and male psychology faculty: The case of Italy
In the United States women tend to publish less than men and to be over-represented at the lower ranks of academia. This study examined the scientific productivity and career status of female and male psychology faculty in Italian universities. Psychology was selected as a discipline because for decades it has had a female majority among its doctorates. Italy was the case-study country because it has one of the highest representations of women am…
Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies
OBJECTIVES: To consider methods and related evidence for evaluating bias in non-randomised intervention studies. DATA SOURCES: Systematic reviews and methodological papers were identified from a search of electronic databases; handsearches of key medical journals and contact with experts working in the field. New empirical studies were conducted using data from two large randomised clinical trials. METHODS: Three systematic reviews and new empiri…
Reply to the Introduction to Telos 108
Before commenting on the “Introduction” to Telos 108 by Piccone, Berman and Ulmen, I want to cite two distinctions relevant to my discussion of it. First, federalism and populism are separate concepts, whatever it turns out is the proper meaning of populism and whether or not the intent of the Introduction was to argue for both. Federalism concerns a type of social organization held to be preferable for relatively complex commercial societies; th…
Predicting Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit Using Scoring Systems: Is New Better? A Comparison of Saps and Saps II in a Cohort of 1,393 Patients
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the performance of the old and new versions of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SAPS and SAPS II, in classifying patients according to the risk of hospital mortality. METHODS: To compare the performance of the two systems, measures of association between the scores and observed mortality were adopted, together with discrimination (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve) and calibrati…
What was Telos All About
Telos once published articles about revolution, dialectic, commodity fetishism, liberation, alienation, and monopoly capitalism. It now publishes articles on federalism, populism, Carl Schmitt, and the nuances within conservatism. What is living and what is dead in Telos' Marxist past after 100 issues? To understand the journal's relation to Marxism and philosophy, it is necessary to recount some intellectual history. The term “Western Marxism” w…
"Introduction to "Special Section on Musicology: Popular Music from Adorno to Zappa
Adorno's music criticism continues to haunt Critical Theory. Those writings are among the few developments of this entire theoretical orientation which remain largely unexplored. Unlike his philosophical writings, Adorno's works on music achieve their inscrutability not solely because of the inherent esoteric nature of the discipline (the background needed in musical theory helps keep these writings often cited but little read). Adorno's strategy…
Myth of the Totally Administered Society
An often cited but unquestioned claim of contemporary political theory is that the “totalitarian state” is a unique and sui generis social formation in the 20th century. Both the Left and Right have embraced this concept as the common core of political theory and policy after WWII. The locus classicus of these ideas is probably Karl Popper's claim that “civilization has not fully recovered from the shock of its birth — the transition from the tri…
What Theory? Whose Community
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves Modernity, Justice and Community (Milan: Franco Angeli Libri, 1990), 240 pp
Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School
The infamous “methodology dispute” in German sociology that occurred primarily between Popper and Adorno, with further details taken care of by such surrogates as Hans Albert and the young Habermas, is best described as a misfire. Popper admitted he did not know the work of the Frankfurt School at the time, and even claims he was unaware they were committed to Hegelian-Marxism until well after the debate or he would simply have repeated the argum…
Aids and The Politics of Morbidity
If you have had your teeth cleaned in the last year you have noted one among many cultural responses to AIDS. Most dental hygienists now use rubber gloves and wear face masks while treating patients. Although occasionally ludicrous, as when New York policemen wore rubber gloves while arresting protestors, these precautions speak to the fact that AIDS has dramatically affected medical practice. The clinical setting and the economic future of hospi…
Essays in Memory of Mitchell Franklin
From 1969 through the 70's Mitchell Franklin was Emeritus Professor of Law and Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo. Over this period his teaching gradually shifted to philosophy where he gave a series of lectures on Hegel, Marx and Neo-Hegelianism, which attracted and influenced a new group of students. These philosophy students were rediscovering the Continental tradition and turning to phenomenology, Western Marxism and German Idealism against die posit…
Deconstructing D'Amico, or Why Joel Whitebook is so Upset
My review of Cornelius Castoriadis' book Crossroads in the Labyrinth ended with the apt reference, I now see, to the emperor being naked. In Joel Whitebook's second review, largely irrelevant to my criticisms of Castoriadis, he fears, though he doesn't know me personally, that only the lack of psychological counseling can explain my uncontrolled anger against Castoriadis. Let me dignify his long distance psychoanalysis by passing over it in silen…
Lenin and the End of Politics
A.J. Polan. Lenin and the End of Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 229 pages; $9.95 paper
Crossroads in the Labyrinth
Cornelius Castoriadis, Crossroads in the Labyrinth, Translation from the French by Kate Soper and Martin Ryle (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984) 339 pages, $27.50
Marvin Farber (1901-1980)
November 24, 1980, Marvin Farber passed away at the age of 79 after along and distinguished career at The State University of New York at Buffalo where he founded and directed Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — a high-powered internationl journal that put Buffalo on the philosophical map. His loss, however, will hardly be felt by official American philosophy because corpses have no feelings, and American philosophy has now been intellectu…
Leftism: An Adult Disorder
The depth of the crisis of the Left can be measured by the level of resistance to discussing it. Mere mention of the topic elicits groans of terminal dejà vu. All sides seem to agree that there is nothing “left” to discuss. Orthodox Marxism, which is still alive and well, points to the empirical evidence that all is going according to its most dire predictions. Who can deny that industrial society is now showing classical symptoms of disequilibri…
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon, 1977. $10.95. 333 pages
A Concept of Subjectivity: Comments on Jacoby's Social Amnesia
Of all the lines between the theoretical work of Marx and Freud there is one that rests literally on the surface. Both continually reworked the “mode of presentation” of their discoveries. While in Marx it was the endless revisions and false starts that lie behind Capital, that have now become accessible with the publication of the Grundrisse, in Freud it was the constant recourse to “models” or “metaphors” which would, in their totality, somehow…
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon, 1977. $10.95. 333 pages
Publication productivity and career advancement by female and male psychology faculty: The case of Italy
In the United States women tend to publish less than men and to be over-represented at the lower ranks of academia. This study examined the scientific productivity and career status of female and male psychology faculty in Italian universities. Psychology was selected as a discipline because for decades it has had a female majority among its doctorates. Italy was the case-study country because it has one of the highest representations of women am…
Multi-analytical study of the medieval wall paintings from the rupestrian church Grotta del Crocifisso at Lentini (eastern Sicily): New evidence of the use of woad (Isatis tinctoria)
This study presents the results of the examination and characterisation of the wall paintings that decorate the rupestrian church named Grotta del Crocifisso, which is located in the territory of Lentini (eastern Sicily, few tens of kilometres from Catania and Syracuse). The earliest mural paintings in the church date back to the twelfth century AD. A multi-analytical approach was adopted for the characterisation of stone materials, secondary deg…
The Contours and Coupures of Structuralist Theory
Foucault has spoken recently of the profound disruption in the domain of knowledge at every level of contemporary theory. “From the beginning of this century psychoanalytic, linguistic and ethnographic research has ousted the subject from the laws of his desires, from the forms of his speech, from the rules of his actions and from the systems of his mythical discourses.” It has become increasingly more important to deal with the thrust of these d…
Aids and The Politics of Morbidity
If you have had your teeth cleaned in the last year you have noted one among many cultural responses to AIDS. Most dental hygienists now use rubber gloves and wear face masks while treating patients. Although occasionally ludicrous, as when New York policemen wore rubber gloves while arresting protestors, these precautions speak to the fact that AIDS has dramatically affected medical practice. The clinical setting and the economic future of hospi…
Marx Contre Marx
The limitations of this book are all the more obvious in view of the pertinent and serious issues Paillet tries to handle. However, at no point does Paillet show more than well-schooled vocabulary parroting grand themes for the most simple-minded political ends and motivations. Paillet's lengthy and incredibly repetitious study is based on the contention that the phenomenon of “bureaucracy” must be treated as a new form of class struggle. Paillet…
Epistemologie des Sciences de l'Homme
This publication brings together three sections of Piaget's enormous study published by UNESCO, Tendances Principales de la Recherche dans les Sciences Sociales et Humaines. In this two volume work Piaget attempts to develop, in rejecting the hierarchical treatment of the sciences, the specificity of each level of research and its reciprocity with other levels without a reduction of all levels to one (psychology to bio-chemistry, for example). Pi…
Introduction to the Foucault-Deleuze Discussion
The following discussion can be situated both in a specific response to the May events, as well as an assessment of their resolution, and the publication of a very controversial work by Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalisme et Schizophrénie. First, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze are now the two major figures of a new tendency in French thought, a post-structuralist theory, for want of a better name, working about in that shattered domain of…
The Contours and Coupures of Structuralist Theory
Foucault has spoken recently of the profound disruption in the domain of knowledge at every level of contemporary theory. “From the beginning of this century psychoanalytic, linguistic and ethnographic research has ousted the subject from the laws of his desires, from the forms of his speech, from the rules of his actions and from the systems of his mythical discourses.” It has become increasingly more important to deal with the thrust of these d…
The Domination of Nature
The historical dynamic that has aligned science with the continuum of domination has its origins in the expansion of the natural sciences and the formation of a concept of Nature which constituted, most readily, the necessary objective structures for a practice of “mastery.” Leiss, in The Domination of Nature, takes as a specific problem the sources, deep in this complex history, of an identification between knowledge and power, between Nature as…
The Prison House of Language
Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. 229 pages. $10.50 cloth; $4.75 paper
A Concept of Subjectivity: Comments on Jacoby's Social Amnesia
Of all the lines between the theoretical work of Marx and Freud there is one that rests literally on the surface. Both continually reworked the “mode of presentation” of their discoveries. While in Marx it was the endless revisions and false starts that lie behind Capital, that have now become accessible with the publication of the Grundrisse, in Freud it was the constant recourse to “models” or “metaphors” which would, in their totality, somehow…
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon, 1977. $10.95. 333 pages
Marvin Farber (1901-1980)
November 24, 1980, Marvin Farber passed away at the age of 79 after along and distinguished career at The State University of New York at Buffalo where he founded and directed Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — a high-powered internationl journal that put Buffalo on the philosophical map. His loss, however, will hardly be felt by official American philosophy because corpses have no feelings, and American philosophy has now been intellectu…
Leftism: An Adult Disorder
The depth of the crisis of the Left can be measured by the level of resistance to discussing it. Mere mention of the topic elicits groans of terminal dejà vu. All sides seem to agree that there is nothing “left” to discuss. Orthodox Marxism, which is still alive and well, points to the empirical evidence that all is going according to its most dire predictions. Who can deny that industrial society is now showing classical symptoms of disequilibri…
Crossroads in the Labyrinth
Cornelius Castoriadis, Crossroads in the Labyrinth, Translation from the French by Kate Soper and Martin Ryle (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984) 339 pages, $27.50
Deconstructing D'Amico, or Why Joel Whitebook is so Upset
My review of Cornelius Castoriadis' book Crossroads in the Labyrinth ended with the apt reference, I now see, to the emperor being naked. In Joel Whitebook's second review, largely irrelevant to my criticisms of Castoriadis, he fears, though he doesn't know me personally, that only the lack of psychological counseling can explain my uncontrolled anger against Castoriadis. Let me dignify his long distance psychoanalysis by passing over it in silen…
Lenin and the End of Politics
A.J. Polan. Lenin and the End of Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 229 pages; $9.95 paper
Essays in Memory of Mitchell Franklin
From 1969 through the 70's Mitchell Franklin was Emeritus Professor of Law and Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo. Over this period his teaching gradually shifted to philosophy where he gave a series of lectures on Hegel, Marx and Neo-Hegelianism, which attracted and influenced a new group of students. These philosophy students were rediscovering the Continental tradition and turning to phenomenology, Western Marxism and German Idealism against die posit…
Aids and The Politics of Morbidity
If you have had your teeth cleaned in the last year you have noted one among many cultural responses to AIDS. Most dental hygienists now use rubber gloves and wear face masks while treating patients. Although occasionally ludicrous, as when New York policemen wore rubber gloves while arresting protestors, these precautions speak to the fact that AIDS has dramatically affected medical practice. The clinical setting and the economic future of hospi…
What Theory? Whose Community
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves Modernity, Justice and Community (Milan: Franco Angeli Libri, 1990), 240 pp
Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School
The infamous “methodology dispute” in German sociology that occurred primarily between Popper and Adorno, with further details taken care of by such surrogates as Hans Albert and the young Habermas, is best described as a misfire. Popper admitted he did not know the work of the Frankfurt School at the time, and even claims he was unaware they were committed to Hegelian-Marxism until well after the debate or he would simply have repeated the argum…
"Introduction to "Special Section on Musicology: Popular Music from Adorno to Zappa
Adorno's music criticism continues to haunt Critical Theory. Those writings are among the few developments of this entire theoretical orientation which remain largely unexplored. Unlike his philosophical writings, Adorno's works on music achieve their inscrutability not solely because of the inherent esoteric nature of the discipline (the background needed in musical theory helps keep these writings often cited but little read). Adorno's strategy…
Myth of the Totally Administered Society
An often cited but unquestioned claim of contemporary political theory is that the “totalitarian state” is a unique and sui generis social formation in the 20th century. Both the Left and Right have embraced this concept as the common core of political theory and policy after WWII. The locus classicus of these ideas is probably Karl Popper's claim that “civilization has not fully recovered from the shock of its birth — the transition from the tri…
What was Telos All About
Telos once published articles about revolution, dialectic, commodity fetishism, liberation, alienation, and monopoly capitalism. It now publishes articles on federalism, populism, Carl Schmitt, and the nuances within conservatism. What is living and what is dead in Telos' Marxist past after 100 issues? To understand the journal's relation to Marxism and philosophy, it is necessary to recount some intellectual history. The term “Western Marxism” w…
Reply to the Introduction to Telos 108
Before commenting on the “Introduction” to Telos 108 by Piccone, Berman and Ulmen, I want to cite two distinctions relevant to my discussion of it. First, federalism and populism are separate concepts, whatever it turns out is the proper meaning of populism and whether or not the intent of the Introduction was to argue for both. Federalism concerns a type of social organization held to be preferable for relatively complex commercial societies; th…
Predicting Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit Using Scoring Systems: Is New Better? A Comparison of Saps and Saps II in a Cohort of 1,393 Patients
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the performance of the old and new versions of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SAPS and SAPS II, in classifying patients according to the risk of hospital mortality. METHODS: To compare the performance of the two systems, measures of association between the scores and observed mortality were adopted, together with discrimination (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve) and calibrati…
Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies
OBJECTIVES: To consider methods and related evidence for evaluating bias in non-randomised intervention studies. DATA SOURCES: Systematic reviews and methodological papers were identified from a search of electronic databases; handsearches of key medical journals and contact with experts working in the field. New empirical studies were conducted using data from two large randomised clinical trials. METHODS: Three systematic reviews and new empiri…
Publication productivity and career advancement by female and male psychology faculty: The case of Italy
In the United States women tend to publish less than men and to be over-represented at the lower ranks of academia. This study examined the scientific productivity and career status of female and male psychology faculty in Italian universities. Psychology was selected as a discipline because for decades it has had a female majority among its doctorates. Italy was the case-study country because it has one of the highest representations of women am…
Are parents of children hospitalized with severe community‐acquired pneumonia more satisfied with care when physicians allow them to share decisions on the antibiotic route
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Despite convincing evidence that oral and injected amoxicillin have equal efficacy in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospitalized children often receive injected antibiotics. To investigate whether shared decision-making (choosing the antibiotic route) influences parental satisfaction. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In a one-year questionnaire-based study, we enrolled consecutive children hospit…
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