BONSIGNORE , Alessandro

The current damage-compensation system is characterized by the need of a greater protection of the individuals' physical and mental health, leaving the judge the task of establishing the real impact of the injury and toprovide a full refund for it. The <> principle, which has been strongly espressed by the United Sections of the Supreme Court,...

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Background In Europe, for the last twenty years, in parallel with the diffusion of the "informed consent" and the self-determination right, there has been an important revision of the concept of the lawfulness of the medical act. Article no. 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, adopted in Nice on December 7th, 2000, and...

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In recent years, the development of research and the increased awareness of our moral duties beyond the human species have pushed the scientific community to revise widely-accepted ontological reductionist views that regard non-human animals as mere things. The new horizons offered by the development of advanced research methods...

The punctum dolens of the refusal to receive blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses has been particularly relevant from a legal point of view, being an issue of great importance and always of topical interest deriving from the relation between life-saving healthcare treatments and the religious beliefs of a patient. From an analysis of the...

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ABSTRACT: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe lung disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma leading to impaired gas exchange. This condition is often lethal, usually requiring mechanical ventilation and admission to an intensive care unit. We present two fatal cases of hidden pneumonia in young people and...

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ABSTRACT: Death due to lightning strikes is infrequent, above all indoors. Some cases may take on a medical legal interest due to the unusual and uncommon circumstances in which they occur. The authors report an extremely rare case of electrocution occurred inside a house in a rural area. A 53-year-old man was reached by an electrical discharge...