M Cardano
Biographic Data
| ID | 20788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Cardano |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cardano |
| SIGNATURE | CARDANO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0268-3020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating the (perceived) risk: An evidence-based typology of parental decision-making on childhood vaccines
Intensive parenting culture imposes upon parents the responsibility to invest all their cognitive and affective resources to protect their children’s health, making parenting a risky business that triggers anxiety and possible regret. In this context, decisions about childhood vaccinations assume a critical significance, implying, with vaccine acceptance and refusal, the posture that public health literature defines as vaccine hesitancy. Based up…
Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries
Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care professionals (HCPs). Focusing primarily on parents as trustors, the bilateral nature of trust and HCPs’ trust in parents have seldom been considered. This article systematically explores these commonl…
Development of Functional Abilities Assessment in Paediatric Oncology (Faap-O) Scale for Children and Adolescents Affected by Cancer
Background/Objectives : Functional abilities are fundamental for social participation. However, functional abilities assessment tools validated for children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment are lacking. A preliminary validation of the Gross Motor Function Measure-88 (GMFM-88) scale for children with cancer found that some items are unable to discriminate or distinguish between different gross motor function levels. This study aims to d…
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table
This article aims to provide a reflection triggered by a ‘round table’ discussion at the VAX-TRUST project final conference regarding the interconnection between health sociology and public health. This interconnection is characterized by complexity, as it involves navigating the various ways in which sociological perspectives can inform and contribute to our understanding of health issues and the development of health interventions. Within these…
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population: The Methodological and Practical Pitfalls of Researching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
The making and unmaking of Hashimoto's thyroiditis: On the mismatch between illness and disease. Results from an Italian study
The diagnostic process in contemporary medical practice is increasingly technical, specialised and relying on population-based ranges of biological normalcy. Disease is defined according to a hierarchy of evidence that privileges specialist knowledge and marginalises subjective experiences of illness. Medical and individual definitions of the situation can conflict in two ways: (i) a diagnosis is made in the absence of symptoms, (ii) individual s…
Defending Qualitative Research: Design, Analysis, and Textualization
Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork – design, analysis, and textualization – this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of “rigour” as formulated in quantitative research and based on the theory of probability, it proposes a theoretical frame that allows combining the goals…
Diálogo aberto: Pontos Críticos Da Implementação No Cuidado À Crise Psicótica
O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar os pontos críticos para a implementação da abordagem do diálogo aberto na atenção à crise psicótica. Trata-se de estudo qualitativo, utilizando os formulários preenchidos por profissionais de saúde mental que participaram de um seminário sobre a temática, realizado por Jaakko Seikkula em 2015, na Itália. Foram analisados 83 formulários com questões abertas autoaplicadas para detectar o perfil sociodemográfic…
O diálogo aberto e os desafios para sua implementação – análise a partir da revisão da literatura
O Método Diálogo Aberto foi desenvolvido na Finlândia para atender crises psíquicas graves utilizando diálogo e inclusão da rede social. Este artigo pretende, através de uma revisão da literatura sobre o Método do Diálogo Aberto, identificar seus princípios e contribuições para processos de desisntitucionalização. Método: As bases utilizadas neste artigo de revisão foram: PubMed (365), PsycInfo (134) e Lilacs (nehuma publicação encontrada), além …
Taking leave of Damanhur. Deconversion from a magico-esoteric community
This article deals with an aspect of religious behavior that has remained in the shadows, both in the scientific literature and in public discourse: deconversion from New Religious Movements. The article analyses the deconversion from a magico-esoteric community located in Northern Italy: Damanhur. Founded in the 1970s, Damanhur is one of Europe’s major spiritual communities that counts about 400 devotees. The article starts with an outline of th…
Internal migration and mental health of the second generation. The case of Turin in the age of the Italian economic miracle
Grupos de ouvidores de vozes: Estratégias E Enfrentamentos
O objetivo deste artigo é discutir as estratégias utilizadas por diferentes grupos de pessoas que ouvem vozes, para o enfrentamento de tal experiência. Trata-se de um estudo etnográfico realizado junto a grupos italianos de ouvidores de vozes. Os dados, que foram obtidos no período entre outubro de 2014 e janeiro de 2016, através da observação participante, com registros em diários de campo, demonstram que estratégias de enfrentamento em espaço g…
Diálogo Aberto: A Experiência Finlandesa E Suas Contribuições
O Diálogo Aberto é um método desenvolvido na década de 1980, na Finlândia, para o enfrentamento da crise psicótica. Este artigo é um ensaio teórico que tem como objetivo apresentar o Diálogo Aberto em seus princípios e enquanto prática de saúde mental desinstitucionalizante, enfatizando seu potencial terapêutico, seus resultados e suas contribuições para outros países. Conclui-se que, para a implementação do Diálogo Aberto em outros contextos, é …
Estratégias, expertise e experiências de ouvir vozes: Entrevista com Cristina Contini
Plants in the Songbooks of Castilla y León, Spain
Man’s relationship with plants is reflected in cultural manifestations such as music. This work aims to present the most important plants in the traditional songs of Castilla y León, Spain. Thirty-three publications were reviewed, from which 7012 songs collected from the oral tradition were transcribed and information about the botanical quotations in these songs was extracted. Plant species were listed in 1316 songs, and 2756 botanical quotes we…
Mental distress: Strategies of sense-making
The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through the comparison of four illness narratives composed b…
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries
BACKGROUND: Changes over time in inequalities in self-reported health are studied for increasingly more countries, but a comprehensive overview encompassing several countries is still lacking. The general aim of this article is to determine whether inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries showed a general tendency either to increase or to decrease between the 1980s and the 1990s and whether trends varied among countries. METH…
Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study
Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Experiences from a European project
This paper presents estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between the 1980s and the 1990s in nine European countries. The best available evidence shows that relative inequalities in mortality generally widened, while the absol
Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries
OBJECTIVES: During the past decades a widening of the relative gap in death rates between upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for several European countries. Although differential mortality decline for cardiovascular diseases has been suggested as an important contributory factor, it is not known what its quantitative contribution was, and to what extent other causes of death have contributed to the widening gap in total mortal…
Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Experiences from a European project
This paper presents estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between the 1980s and the 1990s in nine European countries. The best available evidence shows that relative inequalities in mortality generally widened, while the absol
Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study
Mental distress: Strategies of sense-making
The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through the comparison of four illness narratives composed b…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population: The Methodological and Practical Pitfalls of Researching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Grupos de ouvidores de vozes: Estratégias E Enfrentamentos
O objetivo deste artigo é discutir as estratégias utilizadas por diferentes grupos de pessoas que ouvem vozes, para o enfrentamento de tal experiência. Trata-se de um estudo etnográfico realizado junto a grupos italianos de ouvidores de vozes. Os dados, que foram obtidos no período entre outubro de 2014 e janeiro de 2016, através da observação participante, com registros em diários de campo, demonstram que estratégias de enfrentamento em espaço g…
Diálogo Aberto: A Experiência Finlandesa E Suas Contribuições
O Diálogo Aberto é um método desenvolvido na década de 1980, na Finlândia, para o enfrentamento da crise psicótica. Este artigo é um ensaio teórico que tem como objetivo apresentar o Diálogo Aberto em seus princípios e enquanto prática de saúde mental desinstitucionalizante, enfatizando seu potencial terapêutico, seus resultados e suas contribuições para outros países. Conclui-se que, para a implementação do Diálogo Aberto em outros contextos, é …
Internal migration and mental health of the second generation. The case of Turin in the age of the Italian economic miracle
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries
OBJECTIVES: During the past decades a widening of the relative gap in death rates between upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for several European countries. Although differential mortality decline for cardiovascular diseases has been suggested as an important contributory factor, it is not known what its quantitative contribution was, and to what extent other causes of death have contributed to the widening gap in total mortal…
Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study
Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Experiences from a European project
This paper presents estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between the 1980s and the 1990s in nine European countries. The best available evidence shows that relative inequalities in mortality generally widened, while the absol
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries
BACKGROUND: Changes over time in inequalities in self-reported health are studied for increasingly more countries, but a comprehensive overview encompassing several countries is still lacking. The general aim of this article is to determine whether inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries showed a general tendency either to increase or to decrease between the 1980s and the 1990s and whether trends varied among countries. METH…
Mental distress: Strategies of sense-making
The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through the comparison of four illness narratives composed b…
Plants in the Songbooks of Castilla y León, Spain
Man’s relationship with plants is reflected in cultural manifestations such as music. This work aims to present the most important plants in the traditional songs of Castilla y León, Spain. Thirty-three publications were reviewed, from which 7012 songs collected from the oral tradition were transcribed and information about the botanical quotations in these songs was extracted. Plant species were listed in 1316 songs, and 2756 botanical quotes we…
Grupos de ouvidores de vozes: Estratégias E Enfrentamentos
O objetivo deste artigo é discutir as estratégias utilizadas por diferentes grupos de pessoas que ouvem vozes, para o enfrentamento de tal experiência. Trata-se de um estudo etnográfico realizado junto a grupos italianos de ouvidores de vozes. Os dados, que foram obtidos no período entre outubro de 2014 e janeiro de 2016, através da observação participante, com registros em diários de campo, demonstram que estratégias de enfrentamento em espaço g…
Diálogo Aberto: A Experiência Finlandesa E Suas Contribuições
O Diálogo Aberto é um método desenvolvido na década de 1980, na Finlândia, para o enfrentamento da crise psicótica. Este artigo é um ensaio teórico que tem como objetivo apresentar o Diálogo Aberto em seus princípios e enquanto prática de saúde mental desinstitucionalizante, enfatizando seu potencial terapêutico, seus resultados e suas contribuições para outros países. Conclui-se que, para a implementação do Diálogo Aberto em outros contextos, é …
Estratégias, expertise e experiências de ouvir vozes: Entrevista com Cristina Contini
Taking leave of Damanhur. Deconversion from a magico-esoteric community
This article deals with an aspect of religious behavior that has remained in the shadows, both in the scientific literature and in public discourse: deconversion from New Religious Movements. The article analyses the deconversion from a magico-esoteric community located in Northern Italy: Damanhur. Founded in the 1970s, Damanhur is one of Europe’s major spiritual communities that counts about 400 devotees. The article starts with an outline of th…
Internal migration and mental health of the second generation. The case of Turin in the age of the Italian economic miracle
O diálogo aberto e os desafios para sua implementação – análise a partir da revisão da literatura
O Método Diálogo Aberto foi desenvolvido na Finlândia para atender crises psíquicas graves utilizando diálogo e inclusão da rede social. Este artigo pretende, através de uma revisão da literatura sobre o Método do Diálogo Aberto, identificar seus princípios e contribuições para processos de desisntitucionalização. Método: As bases utilizadas neste artigo de revisão foram: PubMed (365), PsycInfo (134) e Lilacs (nehuma publicação encontrada), além …
Defending Qualitative Research: Design, Analysis, and Textualization
Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork – design, analysis, and textualization – this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of “rigour” as formulated in quantitative research and based on the theory of probability, it proposes a theoretical frame that allows combining the goals…
Diálogo aberto: Pontos Críticos Da Implementação No Cuidado À Crise Psicótica
O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar os pontos críticos para a implementação da abordagem do diálogo aberto na atenção à crise psicótica. Trata-se de estudo qualitativo, utilizando os formulários preenchidos por profissionais de saúde mental que participaram de um seminário sobre a temática, realizado por Jaakko Seikkula em 2015, na Itália. Foram analisados 83 formulários com questões abertas autoaplicadas para detectar o perfil sociodemográfic…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population: The Methodological and Practical Pitfalls of Researching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
The making and unmaking of Hashimoto's thyroiditis: On the mismatch between illness and disease. Results from an Italian study
The diagnostic process in contemporary medical practice is increasingly technical, specialised and relying on population-based ranges of biological normalcy. Disease is defined according to a hierarchy of evidence that privileges specialist knowledge and marginalises subjective experiences of illness. Medical and individual definitions of the situation can conflict in two ways: (i) a diagnosis is made in the absence of symptoms, (ii) individual s…
Development of Functional Abilities Assessment in Paediatric Oncology (Faap-O) Scale for Children and Adolescents Affected by Cancer
Background/Objectives : Functional abilities are fundamental for social participation. However, functional abilities assessment tools validated for children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment are lacking. A preliminary validation of the Gross Motor Function Measure-88 (GMFM-88) scale for children with cancer found that some items are unable to discriminate or distinguish between different gross motor function levels. This study aims to d…
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table
This article aims to provide a reflection triggered by a ‘round table’ discussion at the VAX-TRUST project final conference regarding the interconnection between health sociology and public health. This interconnection is characterized by complexity, as it involves navigating the various ways in which sociological perspectives can inform and contribute to our understanding of health issues and the development of health interventions. Within these…
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
Navigating the (perceived) risk: An evidence-based typology of parental decision-making on childhood vaccines
Intensive parenting culture imposes upon parents the responsibility to invest all their cognitive and affective resources to protect their children’s health, making parenting a risky business that triggers anxiety and possible regret. In this context, decisions about childhood vaccinations assume a critical significance, implying, with vaccine acceptance and refusal, the posture that public health literature defines as vaccine hesitancy. Based up…
Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries
Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care professionals (HCPs). Focusing primarily on parents as trustors, the bilateral nature of trust and HCPs’ trust in parents have seldom been considered. This article systematically explores these commonl…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Inequality (4 works)