Valentina Moretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 355213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Moretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Moretti |
| SIGNATURE | MORETTI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6506-0501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
Making Uncertainty Habitable
Medical education has long been described as a "training for uncertainty," yet how uncertainty is practically organised in professional formation remains underexplored. Drawing on a sociocultural approach to risk and on anthropological theories of ritual, this article conceptualises anatomical dissection as a ritualised infrastructure through which uncertainty is collectively managed. Based on seven months of participant observation and 32 interv…
The creative doctor
Medical education increasingly recognizes the need to prepare future physicians not only with biomedical expertise but also with the professional identities, skills, and reflexive capacities required to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and emotionally demanding clinical encounters. Drawing on scholarship on professional socialization and the emerging field of Graphic Medicine, this qualitative study explores how comics-enhanced education contrib…
Algorithmic Choreography
This article contributes to the growing debate on algorithms in digital health, which has expanded alongside the integration of algorithmic technologies into diverse healthcare practices and contexts. Although much of the existing literature adopts a deterministic perspective, focusing on the impact of algorithms on society, we propose a different approach. Drawing on the concept of algorithmic choreography, we show how humans and algorithmic tec…
Hybrid intelligence
This article investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems reshape risk and uncertainty in dementia care by proposing a conceptual shift from technological efficacy to hybrid intelligence. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both residential and home-based care settings in Italy, and based on interviews with professional and informal caregivers, the study explores how AI technologies such as telemonitoring systems and GPS trackers …
Educational offer in older adult home care for migrant family care assistants
Introduction The increasing number of older people with multiple chronic diseases determines care demand, while the number of formal and informal caregivers is decreasing. In many EU countries, migrant family care assistants (MFCAs) bridge the gap between supply and demand of H24 tailored home care, often without training in older adult care. This study aims to explore older adult care education for (migrant) family care assistants at the Europea…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key feature of healthcare innovation, reshaping how healthcare professionals represent and manage health risks, deliver care, and define patient o
Recording Solo
This paper explores the methodological and reflexive implications of using audio diaries in remote qualitative research with healthcare professionals. Drawing on a three-month study involving 18 participants who submitted audio recordings weekly, complemented by follow-up interviews, the article examines how this method enables the collection of rich, emotionally nuanced, and temporally proximate narratives. The audio diary format proved particul…
From comics to care
Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and psychosocial stress. The graphic novel I nuovi noi ('Our new selves') leverages Graphic Medicine to address these challenges, combining visual storytelling with healthcare insights. Developed collaboratively with patients, healthcare professionals and artists…
The Ethics of Drawing Illness
This paper illustrates how the design of health-related comics contributes to reflecting on the methodological and ethical challenges of qualitative research. In line with Comics-Based Research (CBR), we demonstrate how creating a comic on medical topics emerges from continuous and iterative dialogue among multiple voices: patients, sociologists, artists, and physicians. On an ethical and methodological level, our study explores the creation of a…
Illustrative Storytelling and Social Sciences
Comics are increasingly recognized as a flexible and multimodal medium capable of eliciting, constructing, analyzing, and disseminating qualitative data. Far from being merely illustrative or humorous, comics offer complex visual-narrative forms that can reflect and critique social realities, stimulate reflexivity, and engage diverse audiences. This approach highlights the scientific, ethical, and epistemological implications of using comics in r…
Health got graphic! The role of Graphic Medicine in unpacking autism
The paper brings together Graphic Medicine, namely the use of comics and graphic novels in the healthcare field, and Disability Studies to shed light on the contribution of the graphic medium to the social understanding of disability, focusing on the case of autism. Based on 15 in-depth inter- views with healthcare professionals and using graphic novels as a form of knowledge elicitation, the article shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of…
The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals' platform experiences
Somewhere Between an Actual Disease and a Disease
Functional Neurological Disorders are characterized by sensory-motor or cognitive symptoms. Recent research has revealed their complex nature involving biological, psychological, and social factors. Care requires a multidisciplinary approach, which, to date, has yet to be considered. A Constructivist Grounded Theory study was conducted to understand the reasons behind this, exploring Functional Neurological Disorders diagnosis, communication, and…
Health got graphic! The role of Graphic Medicine in unpacking autism
The paper brings together Graphic Medicine, namely the use of comics and graphic novels in the healthcare field, and Disability Studies to shed light on the contribution of the graphic medium to the social understanding of disability, focusing on the case of autism. Based on 15 in-depth inter- views with healthcare professionals and using graphic novels as a form of knowledge elicitation, the article shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of…
The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals' platform experiences
Somewhere Between an Actual Disease and a Disease
Functional Neurological Disorders are characterized by sensory-motor or cognitive symptoms. Recent research has revealed their complex nature involving biological, psychological, and social factors. Care requires a multidisciplinary approach, which, to date, has yet to be considered. A Constructivist Grounded Theory study was conducted to understand the reasons behind this, exploring Functional Neurological Disorders diagnosis, communication, and…
Educational offer in older adult home care for migrant family care assistants
Introduction The increasing number of older people with multiple chronic diseases determines care demand, while the number of formal and informal caregivers is decreasing. In many EU countries, migrant family care assistants (MFCAs) bridge the gap between supply and demand of H24 tailored home care, often without training in older adult care. This study aims to explore older adult care education for (migrant) family care assistants at the Europea…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key feature of healthcare innovation, reshaping how healthcare professionals represent and manage health risks, deliver care, and define patient o
Recording Solo
This paper explores the methodological and reflexive implications of using audio diaries in remote qualitative research with healthcare professionals. Drawing on a three-month study involving 18 participants who submitted audio recordings weekly, complemented by follow-up interviews, the article examines how this method enables the collection of rich, emotionally nuanced, and temporally proximate narratives. The audio diary format proved particul…
From comics to care
Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and psychosocial stress. The graphic novel I nuovi noi ('Our new selves') leverages Graphic Medicine to address these challenges, combining visual storytelling with healthcare insights. Developed collaboratively with patients, healthcare professionals and artists…
The Ethics of Drawing Illness
This paper illustrates how the design of health-related comics contributes to reflecting on the methodological and ethical challenges of qualitative research. In line with Comics-Based Research (CBR), we demonstrate how creating a comic on medical topics emerges from continuous and iterative dialogue among multiple voices: patients, sociologists, artists, and physicians. On an ethical and methodological level, our study explores the creation of a…
Illustrative Storytelling and Social Sciences
Comics are increasingly recognized as a flexible and multimodal medium capable of eliciting, constructing, analyzing, and disseminating qualitative data. Far from being merely illustrative or humorous, comics offer complex visual-narrative forms that can reflect and critique social realities, stimulate reflexivity, and engage diverse audiences. This approach highlights the scientific, ethical, and epistemological implications of using comics in r…
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
Making Uncertainty Habitable
Medical education has long been described as a "training for uncertainty," yet how uncertainty is practically organised in professional formation remains underexplored. Drawing on a sociocultural approach to risk and on anthropological theories of ritual, this article conceptualises anatomical dissection as a ritualised infrastructure through which uncertainty is collectively managed. Based on seven months of participant observation and 32 interv…
The creative doctor
Medical education increasingly recognizes the need to prepare future physicians not only with biomedical expertise but also with the professional identities, skills, and reflexive capacities required to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and emotionally demanding clinical encounters. Drawing on scholarship on professional socialization and the emerging field of Graphic Medicine, this qualitative study explores how comics-enhanced education contrib…
Algorithmic Choreography
This article contributes to the growing debate on algorithms in digital health, which has expanded alongside the integration of algorithmic technologies into diverse healthcare practices and contexts. Although much of the existing literature adopts a deterministic perspective, focusing on the impact of algorithms on society, we propose a different approach. Drawing on the concept of algorithmic choreography, we show how humans and algorithmic tec…
Hybrid intelligence
This article investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems reshape risk and uncertainty in dementia care by proposing a conceptual shift from technological efficacy to hybrid intelligence. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both residential and home-based care settings in Italy, and based on interviews with professional and informal caregivers, the study explores how AI technologies such as telemonitoring systems and GPS trackers …
Health care (9 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Comics (5 works) · Health professionals (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)