Los niños de la guerra

The Mediterranean is the scene of two shameful situations: the humanitarian crisis of the drifting immigrants and the legal harassment suffered by the NGOs that try to rescue them. Sandro Veronesi climbs aboard one of the rescue boats to talk with activists.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...

The book presents the proceedings of the conference held in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence on 28 and 29 October 2004. The objective of the conference was to study, through a multidisciplinary approach, the question of government and representation at local, national and European level. Among the central issues addressed during the meeting were models of representation, the links between representation and civil society and the functions of the representative organs.

La comprensión del significado y sentido de los derechos humanos no puede hacerse sin prestar atención a su origen y su evolución histórica. En este sentido este trabajo se enmarca en esa perspectiva histórica y, más en concreto, aborda un ámbito geográfico poco explorado por los estudios de historia de los derechos. Aunque centrada en una problemática antigua, es al mismo tiempo de indudable actualidad y del estudio se desprenden una serie de coordenadas y criterios válidos para el presente. Es un trabajo exhaustivo, con abundante y adecuado material bibliográfico, que ha...