VOLUME 11(2) • 2023
The Nuremberg Code on Human Experimentation. A Historical Overview
ABSTRACT. Current ethical codes cover aspects related to good medical practice, the doctor-patient relationship, essential issues in medical practice regarding life and death (e.g., abortion, euthanasia), and research issues (experiments on animals or humans). It is assumed that the researcher is a ..
Retranslation as Polemical Conversation with Predecessors
ABSTRACT. Canonical texts should be retranslated periodically, to avoid the obsolescence that fatally begins to affect not only the interpretations of previous translators but also their linguistic choices. A recent project conducted in Romania has underlined the importance of retranslating Shakespe..
Challenging the Human in Murata Sayaka’s Novel Convenience Store Woman and Tawada Yoko’s Novel The Emissary
ABSTRACT. Tawada Yōko’s novel Kentōshi (translated in the USA as The Emissary and in Great Britain as The Last Children of Tokyo) published in Japan in 2014, illustrated a major issue of contemporary literature: the frailty of the human being. In Japan, after the disaster from Fukushima, Tawada’s dy..
From East to West: Matter, Mirage, Heritage
ABSTRACT. The cultural traditions on which medieval narratives rely are diverse, each having its own writing style and specific motifs. In the prologue to the Chanson des Saisnes, Jean Bodel identifies three such traditions: “de France et de Bretaigne et de Rome la grant”. Nevertheless, any careful ..
Lessons from pandemics: Today it’s me, tomorrow it will be you
ABSTRACT. This special lesson on hodie mihi, cras tibi provides a comparison between famous pandemics in human history, in order to identify not only the common traits, but also, hereby starting, some possible lessons to be learned. The main factors that will be taken into account will be the social..