CID ETHICS - Publications - Series Research Ethics, Bioethics, Biolaw and Biopolitics

The “Research Ethics, Bioethics, Biolaw and Biopolitics” series publishes essays, monographs, collective volumes, seminar proceedings and annotated documents on research ethics, bioethics, biolaw and biopolitics, which are the fields of investigation of the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the CNR as well as the subjects of study and elaboration of institutional documents by the Research Ethics and Integrity Committee of the CNR.

Directors
Cinzia Caporale, Elena Mancini, Ilja Richard Pavone

Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee is composed of members of the CNR Research Ethics and Integrity Committee

Editorial Committee
Giorgia Adamo, Marco Annoni, Marco Arizza, Ludovica Durst, Andrea Grignolio Corsini, Silvia Scalzini, Giulia Sciolli, Roberta Martina Zagarella

Editorial Board
Tiziana Ciciotti (Responsible), Paola Grisanti, Emiliano Liberatori

Graphic design of the volume
Marco Arizza

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October 2024
Coercive care, caring coercion: the role of coercion in eating disorder treatment

Edited by Giulia Sciolli

The idea for this interdisciplinary volume was born from the urgent need to examine the role of ‘coercion’ in the treatment of eating disorders, with particular attention to practical and ethical aspects. The volume aims to go beyond an analysis of coercion in its extreme form — compulsory treatment for the most severe cases of anorexia nervosa — and to consider also the everyday forms that coercion can take during the various phases of illness and treatment. The ultimate goal is to provide a tool to make the relationship between care and coercion less nebulous and less burdensome for all parties involved: patients, families, and healthcare professionals. Various aspects and degrees of coercion indeed characterize treatment pathways for all kinds of eating disorders, beyond the most extreme cases and even in instances of ‘voluntary’ admission to residential facilities. In all these cases too, the very ‘nature’ of eating disorders means that treatment requires daily care practices that are experienced by patients — and not only by them — as coercive.

The editor hopes that bringing together different voices from biomedicine, the psychological sciences, socio-cultural anthropology, philosophy, bioethics, and biolaw will help highlight the complexities of the relationship between care and coercion, not only in moments when immediate decisions must be taken on life or death issues, but also in the daily care practices that aim to prevent such extreme situations. The volume thus seeks to offer an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, as is characteristic of the research tradition of the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity at the CNR.

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After the pandemic. Notes for a new healthcare

Research Ethics, Bioethics, Biolaw and Biopolitics Series – II, 2022

Edited by Cinzia Caporale, Carla Collicelli, Ludovica Durst

The idea of the volume originates from the intention to collect a series of short texts for reflection and proposal on how we should proceed to generate renewed arrangements of the healthcare system in the Italian landscape as a result of the pandemic event. In the face of the transversal and pervasive shock represented by the global experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected all the fundamental dimensions of our collective existence, from relational and psychological dynamics to ethical, social, economic, administrative and political ones, the publication aims to provide an arena for rethinking what happened, offering an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, as is proper to the research tradition of the CNR Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity. The editors’ desire is that it may represent a lucid testimony designed to stimulate debates and reconstruct issues experienced during the emergency, but also to offer significant insights that should not be lost in order to ethically and effectively guide the future of our healthcare and of the country.

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