Maurizio Esposito
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Esposito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposito |
| SIGNATURE | ESPOSITO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6476-7997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health
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…
Adapted Physical Activity for Elderly People and National Policies. A Comparative Investigation
The global demographic transition presents challenges and opportunities for Western societies, affecting biological, psychological, and social aspects. Ageing is linked to a decline in physical abilities, worsened by sedentary lifestyles, which reduce autonomy and quality of life. Public policies must promote “active ageing,” with APA as a key tool to address ageing‐related issues. This study examines APA policies in Italy, France, and Belgium, t…
Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology
Three Marxist Lessons for 21st-Century History and Philosophy of Science
What can we learn from a Marxist history and philosophy of science? There are at least three crucial lessons that scholars should seriously reassess. First, the idea that there is a constitutive relation between practice and theory in knowledge production. This was a central concern for many Marxist HPS scholars and led them to conceive “science” as a praxis and as a situated, and not exclusively intellectual, enterprise. Second, the idea that th…
The machine-organism relation revisited
E-Health and E-Care
The goal of this paper is to argue for the concept of social communication that we identified with the idea of innovation and almost always to technological innovation. The starting point is the hypothesis that innovation is a valuable tool in the service of the greater good. The paper has four sections. First, it briefly reviews concepts and methods in Actor Network Theory, a social theory that is useful in framing the (theoretical) approach and…
Little Silent Spiders
Italy was reached by the pandemic 21 February 2020. Right away, Social Services launched initiatives to support and respond to the needs of vulnerable people, strengthening their professional experiences and changing, in a flexible manner, their ways of intervening. Social workers have woven the network, which now allows ensuring people the continuity of emergency interventions. By reorganizing their services, they have started innovative ways of…
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms
In 1970, the French biologist Francois Jacob opened his famous book, The Logic of Life, with an erudite epigraph: ‘Do you see this egg? With it you can overthrow all the schools of theology, all the churches of the earth.’1 The epigraph was taken from Diderot’s posthumously published dialogue D’Alembert’s Dream and compellingly conveyed the wonder and puzzlements attached to such a small biological entity. Yet, Jacob’s epigraph left out Diderot’s…
The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Risk Behaviors
This study investigates the relationship between life satisfaction and behavioral risky acts in youth and analyzes how this relationship may differ or be similar across two groups from two different regions at NUTS 3 level: Frosinonearea, in Italy, and Timisarea, in Romania. Even though both regions are quite similar in terms of population structure, they have a different historical background and are completely different in terms of labor market…
The Right to Physical Activity in Italian Prisons
The article deals with the importance of practicing physical activity and sport in prisons, not only from a health and physical point of view but especially from a social and relational point of view. A prodromal examination of the sense of punishment between a security paradigm and a treatment paradigm opens up the analysis of the sense of practicing physical activity in prison. From a brief description of the main codes and rules in context and…
From “life” to biology and backward
Marcel Weber y la filosofía de la biología experimental
Expectation and futurity
From human science to biology
Scholars have paid great attention to the neo-Darwinism of Ronald Fisher. He was one of the founding fathers of the modern synthesis and, not surprisingly, his writings and life have been widely scrutinized. However, less attention has been paid to his interests in the human sciences. In assessing Fisher’s uses of the human sciences in his seminal book the Genetical Theory of Natural Selection and elsewhere, the article shows how Fisher’s evoluti…
Problematic “Idiosyncrasies”
Argument D’Arcy Thompson has often been portrayed as a loner. His science of form has frequently been labeled anachronistic, idiosyncratic, and unconnected to his contemporary biology. This article aims to challenge this interpretation. Thompson's representation as a loner did not lie in the idiosyncrasies of his science, but in our own historiography. Through the use of unedited archival sources, this study shows that Thompson's biology was well…
Utopianism in the British evolutionary synthesis
The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Concepts and measures
There is growing recognition of the importance of knowledge translation activities in physical therapy to ensure that research findings are integrated into clinical practice, and increasing numbers of knowledge translation interventions are being conducted. Although various frameworks have been developed to guide and facilitate the process of translating knowledge into practice, these tools have been infrequently used in physical therapy knowledg…
Utopianism in the British evolutionary synthesis
Expectation and futurity
Three Marxist Lessons for 21st-Century History and Philosophy of Science
What can we learn from a Marxist history and philosophy of science? There are at least three crucial lessons that scholars should seriously reassess. First, the idea that there is a constitutive relation between practice and theory in knowledge production. This was a central concern for many Marxist HPS scholars and led them to conceive “science” as a praxis and as a situated, and not exclusively intellectual, enterprise. Second, the idea that th…
E-Health and E-Care
The goal of this paper is to argue for the concept of social communication that we identified with the idea of innovation and almost always to technological innovation. The starting point is the hypothesis that innovation is a valuable tool in the service of the greater good. The paper has four sections. First, it briefly reviews concepts and methods in Actor Network Theory, a social theory that is useful in framing the (theoretical) approach and…
The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Concepts and measures
There is growing recognition of the importance of knowledge translation activities in physical therapy to ensure that research findings are integrated into clinical practice, and increasing numbers of knowledge translation interventions are being conducted. Although various frameworks have been developed to guide and facilitate the process of translating knowledge into practice, these tools have been infrequently used in physical therapy knowledg…
Utopianism in the British evolutionary synthesis
Problematic “Idiosyncrasies”
Argument D’Arcy Thompson has often been portrayed as a loner. His science of form has frequently been labeled anachronistic, idiosyncratic, and unconnected to his contemporary biology. This article aims to challenge this interpretation. Thompson's representation as a loner did not lie in the idiosyncrasies of his science, but in our own historiography. Through the use of unedited archival sources, this study shows that Thompson's biology was well…
From human science to biology
Scholars have paid great attention to the neo-Darwinism of Ronald Fisher. He was one of the founding fathers of the modern synthesis and, not surprisingly, his writings and life have been widely scrutinized. However, less attention has been paid to his interests in the human sciences. In assessing Fisher’s uses of the human sciences in his seminal book the Genetical Theory of Natural Selection and elsewhere, the article shows how Fisher’s evoluti…
Expectation and futurity
From “life” to biology and backward
Marcel Weber y la filosofía de la biología experimental
The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Risk Behaviors
This study investigates the relationship between life satisfaction and behavioral risky acts in youth and analyzes how this relationship may differ or be similar across two groups from two different regions at NUTS 3 level: Frosinonearea, in Italy, and Timisarea, in Romania. Even though both regions are quite similar in terms of population structure, they have a different historical background and are completely different in terms of labor market…
The Right to Physical Activity in Italian Prisons
The article deals with the importance of practicing physical activity and sport in prisons, not only from a health and physical point of view but especially from a social and relational point of view. A prodromal examination of the sense of punishment between a security paradigm and a treatment paradigm opens up the analysis of the sense of practicing physical activity in prison. From a brief description of the main codes and rules in context and…
Little Silent Spiders
Italy was reached by the pandemic 21 February 2020. Right away, Social Services launched initiatives to support and respond to the needs of vulnerable people, strengthening their professional experiences and changing, in a flexible manner, their ways of intervening. Social workers have woven the network, which now allows ensuring people the continuity of emergency interventions. By reorganizing their services, they have started innovative ways of…
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms
In 1970, the French biologist Francois Jacob opened his famous book, The Logic of Life, with an erudite epigraph: ‘Do you see this egg? With it you can overthrow all the schools of theology, all the churches of the earth.’1 The epigraph was taken from Diderot’s posthumously published dialogue D’Alembert’s Dream and compellingly conveyed the wonder and puzzlements attached to such a small biological entity. Yet, Jacob’s epigraph left out Diderot’s…
The machine-organism relation revisited
E-Health and E-Care
The goal of this paper is to argue for the concept of social communication that we identified with the idea of innovation and almost always to technological innovation. The starting point is the hypothesis that innovation is a valuable tool in the service of the greater good. The paper has four sections. First, it briefly reviews concepts and methods in Actor Network Theory, a social theory that is useful in framing the (theoretical) approach and…
Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology
Three Marxist Lessons for 21st-Century History and Philosophy of Science
What can we learn from a Marxist history and philosophy of science? There are at least three crucial lessons that scholars should seriously reassess. First, the idea that there is a constitutive relation between practice and theory in knowledge production. This was a central concern for many Marxist HPS scholars and led them to conceive “science” as a praxis and as a situated, and not exclusively intellectual, enterprise. Second, the idea that th…
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health
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…
Adapted Physical Activity for Elderly People and National Policies. A Comparative Investigation
The global demographic transition presents challenges and opportunities for Western societies, affecting biological, psychological, and social aspects. Ageing is linked to a decline in physical abilities, worsened by sedentary lifestyles, which reduce autonomy and quality of life. Public policies must promote “active ageing,” with APA as a key tool to address ageing‐related issues. This study examines APA policies in Italy, France, and Belgium, t…
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