Contenuti per la categoria: Trattamenti sanitari

1 - Un concorso “scomodo” quello bandito dall’ospedale “San Camillo” di Roma per l’assunzione di due medici da dedicare specificamente alle prestazioni assistenziali di interruzione volontaria della gravidanza (hinc: IVG) rese in attuazione della legge n. 194 del 1978. Di quelli che suscitano immediate reazioni emotive e ideologiche, ma spesso perciò giuridicamente banali e superficiali, tra favorevoli e contrari. Non è una patologia italiana, beninteso: in America essere pregiudizialmente pro life o pro choise, a prescindere da ogni valutazione di contesto, può determinare l’esito delle elezioni presidenziali. Le conseguenze dell’analoga contrapposizione, emersa dalla gran messe di interventi sulla stampa italiana nei giorni scorsi, sono molto meno preoccupanti ma nondimeno da non trascurare per la tenuta del principio di laicità dello Stato. (continua)

SOMMARIO: 1. Note introduttive - 2. La rilevanza sociale del fenomeno - 3. I principi costituzionali di riferimento - 4. La tutela pattizia ( segue ) - 5. ( segue ) e giurisprudenziale - 6. Circoncisione e sanità pubblica - 7. Riflessioni conclusive e prospettive.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. Incidenza delle categorie religiose e culturali sulla performance dei servizi sanitari: a) barriere comunicative e inefficacia delle prestazioni erogate - 3. ( segue ): b) un possibile esito: l’incremento della “medicina difensiva” - 4. ( segue ): c) consenso informato, distanza culturale e responsabilità medica - 5. ( segue ): d) diritto all’autodeterminazione terapeutica, cure non convenzionali e trattamenti sanitari culturalmente qualificati - 6. Per un’attuazione differenziata del diritto alla salute.

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the impact of religious and cultural factor in the therapeutic relationship and the performance of health services, highlighting the need for management policies of religious and cultural diversity to achieve strategies and approaches to fair and efficient health care.
 

SUMMARY: 1. Aim of the study - 2. Defining medical treatment- 3. Treatment, consent and “religious grounds” - 4. The right to express one’s religion and medical consent - 5. The legitimate limitations on the right to refuse a treatment on religious grounds - 6. Capacity to refuse a treatment - 7. The genuineness of consent - 8. Refusal and children’s best interest – 9. Conclusive remarks.

ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the right of patients to refuse medical treatments on religious grounds and on the (supposed) right to the parents to refuse medical treatments on behalf of their children, emphasizing the links and connections between the freedom of religion, the right to self - determination and the right to refuse medical treatment based on religious motivations. After a comparison between the norms devoted to rule the exercise of these rights in the English (and Welsh) and Italian legal systems, the article suggests that the approach of medical staff towards a Refusal of Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds ought to start an intercultural process. This process ought to be a cross - cultural dialogue devoted not only to translate medical language in a language which can be fully
understood by the patient, but also to create a reciprocal comprehension between the (mainstream) ethnocultural communication codes and instances of the staff and the (nondominant) ethnocultural (and religious) communication codes and instances of the patient (or of his/her parents).
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. I diritti sociali in Europa e il Comitato europeo sui diritti sociali (CEDS) - 3. Le decisioni di merito del Comitato europeo dei diritti sociali sull’attuazione nel nostro Paese della legge n. 194 del 1978 - 4. L’obiezione di coscienza e l’interruzione volontaria della gravidanza in Italia - 5. Le strade possibili per dare una sostenibilità pubblica all’obiezione di coscienza - 6. Alcune brevi considerazioni di sintesi.

ABSTRACT : The Author examines the decision of the European Committee of Social Rights (CEDS), which once again condemned Italy had not taken our country, compared to the large number of doctors objectors, no organizational measures to ensure the reproductive rights of women and the right to work of non-objectors. He thus addresses the issue of social rights in Europe and the role of guarantor of the CEDS to focus eventually on conscientious objection, which considers a fundamental right, which must, however, know how to give, not interfere collectability of other rights. Moreover, it indicates, finally, what are the possible ways to give concrete and practical sustainability of conscientious objection.

SOMMARIO: 1. Le pratiche di manipolazioni degli organi genitali femminili – 2. L’art. 583 bis c.p. nella prassi applicativa – 3. La lotta alle mutilazioni e/o lesioni degli organi genitali femminili: strumenti adeguati o perfettibili? – 4. La circoncisione rituale maschile nell’ordinamento italiano – 5. Il differente trattamento giuridico della circoncisione maschile e femminile - 6. La circoncisione rituale maschile tra modalità di esecuzione e aspetti sanitari - 7. Funzione genitoriale, scelte educative e prassi circoncisoria maschile - 8. Conclusioni.

Marks on the body and wounds in the soul. The manipulation of the children's genital organs and violated rights

ABSTRACT : Females’ genital mutilation (FGM) comprises any alteration of the external female genitalia , for non-medical reasons. The practice has negative effects on the health and is a violation of human rights of girls and women. In Italy, according to the art. 583 bis Penal Code, any form of FGM is forbidden, including clitoridectomy, excision, infibulation and any other practice causing similar effects, or causing physical or mental disease. Conversely, male ritual circumcision is allowed. According to the author of this paper, genital manipulation practices on both sexes should be explicitly fought and they should be replaced with symbolic actions, in order to protect the minor’s body and soul.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Un controllo a iniziativa di parte: la prassi segnalata al Garante - 3. Il quadro normativo e concettuale d’immediato riferimento: a) la speciale qualità del dato raccolto - 4. (segue): b) la natura pubblica del titolare e i principi di finalità e indispensabilità - 5. I risultati dell’istruttoria - 6. La decisione dell’Autorità - 7. Osservazioni conclusive.

Religious beliefs, privacy and healthcare

ABSTRACT : The paper analyzes a decision of the Italian Data Protection Authority on the relationship between religious freedom and privacy in the healthcare context.

Sommario : 1. Autonomia confessionale e sovranità dello Stato: la distinzione tra ordini “distinti” – 2. Il principio di laicità e la valorizzazione delle differenze, nell’inderogabile esigenza di salvaguardia dei diritti della persona – 3. Tutela della salute: diritto fondamentale della Costituzione italiana – 4. La dimensione ascetica dell’individuo nella concezione giuridica del bene salute – 5. La salute nell’ordinamento canonico: connotazione di un bene con valore relativo – 6. La realizzazione “responsabile” della salute e la sua intrinseca connessione con la salvezza nella Chiesa – 7. La sana cooperatio tra Stato e Chiesa nella tutela della salute del civis-fidelis – 8. Conclusioni.

Health of the civis-fidelis in the different systems of the Italian State and the Catholic Church. The spiritual needs of the individual as included in th e meaning of health

ABSTRACT: The meaning of "health" in a legal system depends upon its culture and social development, so that time and space influence the way protection is offered. Nowadays the idea of “health” has enlarged. In the past the meaning of health was intended as a mental-physical well-being; it has now gradually developed to a larger meaning, including a complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Along with Italian constitution, Italy has to pursue and protect the health of any individual, not just citizens. Health is also protected by the Church as a precious gift given by God to man and is closely linked with salvation. Man is called to protect the value of this gift in its widest configuration. Therefore the integral protection of health requires to take into account all the dimensions of the individual, both as civis and fidelis. In order to reach this target it is necessary an open dialogue between civil authorities and religious institution; its importance relies on the primacy of the individual and includes the care of his dignity and the respect of his rights, in mutual respect for the autonomy of the two orders, whose relations are to be seen as a single track and a vital bulwark, a vision inspired by the liberal-democratic system.

SOMMARIO: 1. L’assenza di una disciplina legislativa - 2. Un servizio pubblico laico. Il dictum del Consiglio di Stato - 3. Definire la “cura” in un contesto multireligioso - 4. Una soluzione eticamente sostenibile - 5. Riflessioni conclusive.

ABSTRACT : This paper examines a recent decision of the Italian State Council relating to the life-sustaining treatment and advance directives. This decision - which is notable for having shared a secular notion of "health care" - does not fail to emphasize the need for an incisive intervention of the national law that aims at regulating the so-called "good death".

SUMMARY: 1. Problem description - 2. State of Russian Legislation regulating of the legal status of the child extracted alive as a result of abortion - 3. Legal basis for the recognition of human dignity and the right to life of the child extracted alive as a result of abortion - 4. Legal guarantees of recognition of the right to life and human dignity of the child extracted alive as a result of abortion and emergency medical care in foreign legislation - 5. Conclusions.