Sara Rubinelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 5717126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Rubinelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubinelli |
| SIGNATURE | RUBINELLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lucerne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1086-8914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ghosts of the Agora
What constitutes quality health information is conventionally framed in epistemic terms: accuracy, evidential rigor, methodological transparency. This article argues that such criteria, while necessary, are insufficient. Health communication operates under conditions of uncertainty, competing authority, and emotional intensity that render it fundamentally rhetorical. Drawing on primary texts from the Sophistic tradition, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero,…
Safeguarding Quality in Health and Medical Science Information Today
From preparedness to adaptation
Background Effective communication is essential during health crises to maintain operational clarity, staff engagement, and public trust. While existing models emphasise centralised crisis response and structured messaging, few studies examine how hospital communication evolves across different phases of a prolonged emergency. Objective This study explored how Swiss hospitals adapted their internal and external communication strategies during the…
Strengthening adolescents’ critical health literacy and scientific literacy to tackle mis- and dis-information. A feasibility study in Switzerland
Objectives: We aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a critical health literacy (CHL) and science literacy (SL) training course targeting secondary school students in Switzerland. Methods: Using a community-based participatory approach, we developed a two-block training program, the first centered on argumentation skills and the second on scientific skills. We combined an ex-cathedra and a flipped-classroom approach, providing students wit…
The Learning Rehabilitation System
Relationship between secondary health conditions and life satisfaction in persons with spinal cord injury
Persons with SCI across the world are more likely to perceive better LS if they experience fewer SHCs and receive treatment for SHCs, in comparison to those who do not. Prevention and treatment of SHCs following SCI should be a high priority in order to improve the lived experience and enhance LS
It is time for health institutions to invest in persuasive communication to combat low quality information
OPINION article Front. Commun., 31 October 2022Sec. Health Communication Volume 7 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.1006302
Hope and therapeutic privilege
Communicating an unfavourable prognosis while maintaining patient hope represents a critical challenge for healthcare professionals (HPs). Duty requires respect for the right to patient autonomy while at the same time not doing harm by causing hopelessness and demoralisation. In some cases, the need for therapeutic privilege is discussed. The primary objectives of this study were to explore HPs’ perceptions of hope in the prognosis communication …
Attitudes towards Safe Listening Measures in Entertainment Venues
Our findings stress the urge to address the issue of safe listening in public venues and support an approach based on the introduction of standards. Moreover, they provide us with information on key factors to be considered when introducing and communicating preventive measures in public entertainment venues
Strengthening Critical Health Literacy for Health Information Appraisal
The overload of health information has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health authorities play a primary role in managing this information. However, individuals have to apply critical health literacy to evaluate it. The objective of this paper is to identify targets for strengthening critical health literacy by focusing on the field of argumentation theory. This paper is based on the textual analysis of instances of he…
Coping With Chronic Lower Back Pain
A website was designed in order to help patients with chronic lower back pain (cLBP) to cope with their condition, relying on the concept of health literacy. A sample of 748 chronic or potentially chronic LBP patients were asked to regularly visit the site for a period of 12 months. The intervention was evaluated quantitatively (both preuse and postuse surveys, logfiles) and qualitatively. Users appear to have taken less painkillers than before i…
Internet-enhanced health communication
The figure that stands at the origin of two considerably different areas of knowledge is Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BC). In the historiography of sign theories, Hippocrates is considered to be at the
Dialectical and Rhetorical Uses of Topoi
Cicero’s Use of Locus in De Inventione
Cicero’s List of Aristotelian Loci
Ars Topica
The Ancient Argumentative Game
Tóπoι e i'δια nella Retorica di Aristotele
Il passo della Retorica (1358 a 10-21) dove è introdotta la distinzione τóπoι e i'δια è uno dei più controversi dell'opera aristotelica. Il presente lavoro propone un chiarimento della natura e del ruolo di τóπoι e i'δια nella costruzione di un'argomentazione dialettico-retorica. Tale chiarimento viene presentato attraverso un confronto tra Topici e Retorica che, se pur espressamente evidenziato da Aristotele stesso, sembra essere stato trascurat…
The Invention of the Young Cicero
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The Invention of the Young Cicero
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Tóπoι e i'δια nella Retorica di Aristotele
Il passo della Retorica (1358 a 10-21) dove è introdotta la distinzione τóπoι e i'δια è uno dei più controversi dell'opera aristotelica. Il presente lavoro propone un chiarimento della natura e del ruolo di τóπoι e i'δια nella costruzione di un'argomentazione dialettico-retorica. Tale chiarimento viene presentato attraverso un confronto tra Topici e Retorica che, se pur espressamente evidenziato da Aristotele stesso, sembra essere stato trascurat…
The Ancient Argumentative Game
Dialectical and Rhetorical Uses of Topoi
Cicero’s Use of Locus in De Inventione
Cicero’s List of Aristotelian Loci
Ars Topica
Coping With Chronic Lower Back Pain
A website was designed in order to help patients with chronic lower back pain (cLBP) to cope with their condition, relying on the concept of health literacy. A sample of 748 chronic or potentially chronic LBP patients were asked to regularly visit the site for a period of 12 months. The intervention was evaluated quantitatively (both preuse and postuse surveys, logfiles) and qualitatively. Users appear to have taken less painkillers than before i…
Internet-enhanced health communication
The figure that stands at the origin of two considerably different areas of knowledge is Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BC). In the historiography of sign theories, Hippocrates is considered to be at the
Hope and therapeutic privilege
Communicating an unfavourable prognosis while maintaining patient hope represents a critical challenge for healthcare professionals (HPs). Duty requires respect for the right to patient autonomy while at the same time not doing harm by causing hopelessness and demoralisation. In some cases, the need for therapeutic privilege is discussed. The primary objectives of this study were to explore HPs’ perceptions of hope in the prognosis communication …
Attitudes towards Safe Listening Measures in Entertainment Venues
Our findings stress the urge to address the issue of safe listening in public venues and support an approach based on the introduction of standards. Moreover, they provide us with information on key factors to be considered when introducing and communicating preventive measures in public entertainment venues
Strengthening Critical Health Literacy for Health Information Appraisal
The overload of health information has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health authorities play a primary role in managing this information. However, individuals have to apply critical health literacy to evaluate it. The objective of this paper is to identify targets for strengthening critical health literacy by focusing on the field of argumentation theory. This paper is based on the textual analysis of instances of he…
It is time for health institutions to invest in persuasive communication to combat low quality information
OPINION article Front. Commun., 31 October 2022Sec. Health Communication Volume 7 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.1006302
Strengthening adolescents’ critical health literacy and scientific literacy to tackle mis- and dis-information. A feasibility study in Switzerland
Objectives: We aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a critical health literacy (CHL) and science literacy (SL) training course targeting secondary school students in Switzerland. Methods: Using a community-based participatory approach, we developed a two-block training program, the first centered on argumentation skills and the second on scientific skills. We combined an ex-cathedra and a flipped-classroom approach, providing students wit…
The Learning Rehabilitation System
Relationship between secondary health conditions and life satisfaction in persons with spinal cord injury
Persons with SCI across the world are more likely to perceive better LS if they experience fewer SHCs and receive treatment for SHCs, in comparison to those who do not. Prevention and treatment of SHCs following SCI should be a high priority in order to improve the lived experience and enhance LS
From preparedness to adaptation
Background Effective communication is essential during health crises to maintain operational clarity, staff engagement, and public trust. While existing models emphasise centralised crisis response and structured messaging, few studies examine how hospital communication evolves across different phases of a prolonged emergency. Objective This study explored how Swiss hospitals adapted their internal and external communication strategies during the…
The Ghosts of the Agora
What constitutes quality health information is conventionally framed in epistemic terms: accuracy, evidential rigor, methodological transparency. This article argues that such criteria, while necessary, are insufficient. Health communication operates under conditions of uncertainty, competing authority, and emotional intensity that render it fundamentally rhetorical. Drawing on primary texts from the Sophistic tradition, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero,…
Safeguarding Quality in Health and Medical Science Information Today
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Cicero (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Health care (5 works)